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Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male on a tree trunk.
Samiec dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) na pniu drzewa.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male foraging on a branch.
Samiec dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) żerujący na gałęzi.
Syrian woodpecker, oder auch Dendrocopos syriacus, der Blutspecht. Fotografiert in Ungarn, Hortobágyi. Futtertragend, am Nest.
Portrait of an internally displaced Syrian refugee girl in the Atmeh refugee camp, Idlib province Syria.
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John Wreford is a freelance photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Palmyra is a set of spectacular ruins in Syria (which none of us have visited recently), but which I was fortunate to have seen in 2001. ISIS dynamited several of the monuments here, murdered the chief historian, etc. and tried to remove any evidence of any pre-Islam religion. The Brits set up a model of this arch in London (Trafalgar Sq), which was on the news yesterday.
Preservationists/archaeologists who have visited the site (since its recent re-capture by the Syrian govt) are cautiously optimistic that some of these monuments (including this arch) can be reconstructed...
Syria in 2010.
Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader castle in Syria and one of the most important medieval castles in the world.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) on a tree trunk.
Dzięcioł białoszyi (Dendrocopos syriacus) na pniu drzewa.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male perched on a tree trunk.
Samiec dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) siedzący na pniu drzewa.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) female foraging on a branch.
Samica dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) żerująca na gałęzi.
Reuters, October 5, 2015:
Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said on Sunday, after they destroyed two ancient temples at the central Syrian site in recent months.
A Russian military police armoured personnel carrier (APC) drives along a road in the countryside near the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province on October 24, 2019, as part of a joint patrol between Russian forces and Syrian Kurdish Asayish internal security forces near the border with Turkey. - Russian forces have started patrols along the flashpoint frontier, filling the vacuum left by a US troop withdrawal that effectively returned a third of the country to the Moscow-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male on a tree trunk.
Dzięcioł białoszyi (Dendrocopos syriacus) na pniu drzewa.
Palmyra is an ancient Semitic city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early second millennium BC. Palmyra changed hands on a number of occasions between different empires before becoming a subject of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.
The city grew wealthy from trade caravans; the Palmyrenes became renowned as merchants who established colonies along the Silk Road and operated throughout the Roman Empire. Palmyra's wealth enabled the construction of monumental projects, such as the Great Colonnade, the Temple of Bel, and the distinctive tower tombs. Ethnically, the Palmyrenes combined elements of Amorites, Arameans, and Arabs. The city's social structure was tribal, and its inhabitants spoke Palmyrene (a dialect of Aramaic), while using Greek for commercial and diplomatic purposes. Greco-Roman culture influenced the culture of Palmyra, which produced distinctive art and architecture that combined eastern and western traditions. The city's inhabitants worshiped local Semitic deities, Mesopotamian and Arab gods.
By the third century AD Palmyra had become a prosperous regional center. It reached the apex of its power in the 260s, when the Palmyrene King Odaenathus defeated Persian Emperor Shapur I. The king was succeeded by regent Queen Zenobia, who rebelled against Rome and established the Palmyrene Empire. In 273, Roman emperor Aurelian destroyed the city, which was later restored by Diocletian at a reduced size. The Palmyrenes converted to Christianity during the fourth century and to Islam in the centuries following the conquest by the 7th-century Rashidun Caliphate, after which the Palmyrene and Greek languages were replaced by Arabic.
Before AD 273, Palmyra enjoyed autonomy and was attached to the Roman province of Syria, having its political organization influenced by the Greek city-state model during the first two centuries AD. The city became a Roman colonia during the third century, leading to the incorporation of Roman governing institutions, before becoming a monarchy in 260. Following its destruction in 273, Palmyra became a minor center under the Byzantines and later empires. Its destruction by the Timurids in 1400 reduced it to a small village. Under French Mandatory rule in 1932, the inhabitants were moved into the new village of Tadmur, and the ancient site became available for excavations. During the Syrian Civil War in 2015, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) destroyed large parts of the ancient city, which was recaptured by the Syrian Army on 2 March 2017
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male perched on a dead branch.
Samiec dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) siedzący na martwej gałęzi.
Syrian Woodpecker looks very similar to Great Spotted Woodpecker except it lacks that black bar across its cheek leaving a huge patch of white on the face. I think it looks familiar, yet oddly unfamiliar at the same time. The red on the undertail is also notably paler in Syrian. This is a female Syrian Woodpecker, lacking red on the nape, but here's a male Great Spotted for comparison: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/51913921613/in/photolist Despite the name Syrian Woodpeckers are not restricted to Syria as it breeds from the Middle East north through SE Europe as far as Poland, and east to Iran, Ukraine and Russia. It was given the English name from its scientific name syriacus, described in 1833 from a specimen taken on Mount Lebanon. I have seen Syrian Woodpecker on a number of occasions in various countries but have always found them to be shy and inconspicuous. This photograph I took in an orchard in Turkey was the first time I have managed to point a camera at one.
I am not expecting much attention as I think in thumbnail this will be passed off as an average shot of a Great Spotted Woodpecker. I typed the scientific name into Flickr and it came up with 665 photos, but quite a few were misidentified Great Spots. To compare I typed Great Spot's scientific name and it came up with 34 thousand images.