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Northern Syria

If we take the city of Ḥannu as the dividing
line between Northern and Central Syria it
will give a convenient limit for the rough
geographical distribution of the archeological
remains as we study them. This division
will correspond approximately with that
made by de Vogüé and will coincide
very nearly with the present governmental
line of demarkation between the Wilayet
of Damascus and that of [Haleb]

So far as they have been pursued, our
studies of the architecture and inscriptions
of these two districts show interesting
differences, which will appear the more striking
when we have made a careful
comparative study of the remains in the
mountain districts of the north with those
of the central plains.