#arwad

Ile Rouad, French occupation, Syria, 1916

1915, Sept 1 - France occupies Ile Rouad

1918, Sept/Oct - Ile Rouad used as a staging area for the taking of Damascus

1919 - Ile Rouad Becomes a part of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (East)

1920 - Ile Rouad becomes part of the Alawite State

Ile Rouad was the first point of French occupation in the Middle East, as on 1 Sept. 1915, the island was taken by the French Navy cruiser Jeanne d'Arc.

God is sovereign over all earth, all nations are held accountable to the Lord. It is God’s prerogative to judge the nations, but because the Lord is compassionate it is God’s desire to rescue.  There is a tension between these two truths. #Isaiah23

Phoenician Alliance Isaiah ended this cycle of oracles with his prophecy concerning the commercial empire of the Phoenicians, what today is Lebanon.   Tyre and Sidon were key cities that exported workers and building materials throughout the known world, including Judah. Israel had enjoyed an amicable relationship with the city-states of Phoenicia since the days of King David. Now King Hiram…

Syria Information (Aleppo, Arwad, Bosra, Damascus, Hama, Homs, Latakia, Palmyra, Rasfa, Tartus)

The name of Syria comes from the ancient Greek name for the land of Aram at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Arabia to the south and Cilicia to the north, stretching inland to include Mesopotamia, and having an uncertain border to the northeast that Pliny the Elder describes as including from west to east Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene, “formerly known as Assyria”…

Arwad

Population of 4,403; part of Syria; 0.08 square miles.

Interesting fact: the inhabitants of the island are mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 10:18 & Ezekiel 27: 8 & 11 as the Arvadites.