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There are 700 "dead cities" across northern Syria, all of which were Christian during the Byzantine period but now lay abandoned and in ruins. These ruins were among the greatest treasuries of Byzantine architecture to be found anywhere in the ancient world. The ruins date back to before the fifth century B.C.
After the Islamic conquest of the Byzantine world, the Dead Cities fell into decline, the inhabitants moving away and leaving ghost towns behind them.
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