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Doura Europos has served as a military colony, a fortress and a caravan city, and still offers great views over the Euphrates river to the present-day visitor.
Originally a Babylonian town called Doura, or fortress in the Semantic language, Europos was added by the Seleucids after the town that Seleucus was born in. During the Seleucid times, around 300 BCE, Doura Europos was a defensive town guarding the route between Apamea and Seleucia. For some time, Doura Europos was under influence of Palmyra, until the Romans took it in 165CE, as the easternmost fortification against the Sassanians, who took and destroyed the city in 256. The fortified city was well known for its religious tolerance, as shown by the fact that you could find a church, a synagogue, as well as several Greek, Roman, and Mesopotamian temples.
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