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Contents 1 Image Chaos! 2 No Map?! 3 Errors! 4 Palmyra and Rome 5 Tadmor and not Tadmor?!

[edit] Image Chaos!

There are obviously too many images jammed in this article, which is quite small. I will rearrange the images and add the other images to a gallery, which will make the article look quite neater. --Anas Salloum 13:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Map?!

This article really needs a map of the area--at least one of Syria with Palmyra indicated. I haven't been able to find one...-DMCer 05:34, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Errors!

The example, quoted from the article below, makes no sense. The example interchanges the "r" and the "d" - the text interchanged the "t" and the "d". Which is correct?

"(sometimes interchanging the letters "t" and "d" - "Tarmod" instead of "Tadmor")."

Ambrose M 23:43, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Palmyra and Rome

Copied from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 11 for processing. --Ghirla^-трёп- 21:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

What impact did Palmyra have on ancient Rome? Gothicus 22:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, it had an impact far beyond the confines of Rome, Gothicus; and next time you celebrate Christmas Day, if you do celebrate Christmas Day, you might care to give passing thanks to Palmyra and Queen Zenobia!

A rich trading centre, Palmyra was also vital to the defence of Rome's eastern provinces, especially after Ardashir created a new Persian Empire on the ruins of the Parthians. It was Prince Odenathus of Palmyra who drove back the Persian invasion of 262AD, for which he received the title of of totius Orientis imperator from the grateful Gallienus in Rome. But Zenobia, his wife and successor, was altogether more ambitious. Mindful of the decline of Roman power, she constructed the Palmyrene Empire, an echo of that of an earlier Arab queen, Semiramis. Palmyra under Queen Zenobia was the centre of many cults and religions; but standing above all was Sol Invictus-the Unconquered Sun. This cult had previously come to Rome in the form of Elagabalus Sol Invictus. It was discredited, to some degree, by association with the decadent Emperor Heliogabalus, though it never entirely went away. After Aurelian defeated Zenobia he built a huge temple to Sol Invictus on his return to Rome, a celebration both of his triumph and a way of harnessing the power of this supreme God. It was the first serious attempt to create a unifying religion for the whole Empire, a way of binding the fragments together after the prolonged Crisis of the Third Century. Aurelian was god on earth and the Sun was god in heaven. In 274AD the Emperor declared that the annual festival of Sol Invictus would fall on the winter solstice-25 December. And it was thus that Christmas came on a star, from the east and in the company of a Queen! Clio the Muse 00:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tadmor and not Tadmor?!

"(sometimes interchanging the letters "t" and "d" - "Tadmor" instead of "Tadmor")" should read "(sometimes interchanging the letters "m" and "d" - "Tamdor" instead of "Tadmor")" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Evan Siegel (talk • contribs) 00:13, 19 January 2008 (UTC)