Monuments - Hama

Hama: It is the ancient Hamat which was inhabited since the fourth millennium BC then it yielded to the Akkads, the Somers until the end of the twenty second century BC when it was attacked by the Amoites who destroyed it then made it a center for them... Afterwards Hama witnessed the Babylonian, the Hittite, the Persian, the Greek, the Hellenistic and the Seleucid eras. Then it was occupied by the Romans, the Byzantines and in the year 638 AD the Moslem Arabs opened it. It witnessed the various developments and events that took place during the different periods of their rule. Then it became the capital of the Ayyoubi's Emirate with the very famous ruler the scientist King Abil-Fida whor wrote very well-known book of geography and history...

 The Water Wheels:

Hama the city of Hama on the river Orontes has put the river to good use, to provide an original method of irrigation. Arab engineers built enormous wooden water wheels, driven by the current and fitted with scoops. These fed aqueducts more than ten meters high, which then took water out into the countryside. This technique was in use before the thirteenth century.

A sumptuous residence erected in 1742 by an ottoman governor, Assad Pasha El Azem before his appointment to Damascus where he also left a souvenir with his passage with another jewel of oriental architecture. 

 The Great Mosque:

It was built under the Omayyads in a place of a Byzantine church which most likely replaced a pagan temple. in the patio, the (house of Treasure), i.e. the treasure of the community, like the Omayyad mosque, is a building where public funds were kept early in the times of Islam. In the Prayer room, thea preaching chair(Minbar), is a sculptured woodwork of the 14th century...

 Apamee:

The Ruins of the Seleucide city, of the leader Salucos Nekator, and the center of his military leadership. It is about 60 Km to the northwest of Hama. A perfect images of the mixture of the Greek civilization with the local Syrian civilization which was creative in every corner and place...