Sura
Ancient city · Syria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.899, 38.780
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: archaeological site in Syria
History
Sura (Suriya), was an ancient city on the Euphrates River in northern Syria, today on a site 25 km west of Raqqa and 35 km north of Resafa. In the Roman Empire, Sura was a fortress city in the Roman province of Syria, and later on, in the Euphratensis.