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The sole Syrian island. Arwad is quoted in the Genesis (X, 18). Its extraordinary history dates back to the second millennium B.C. Its inhabitants dominated the fertile coast between Tripoli and the Orontes river mouth. Taken by the Assyrians and Persians, the island fought Xeres in Salamis's naval battle (as per Herodote VII, 98). When Alexander the Great reached the area, Arwad's king put the island at his disposal. In return, the Seleucids offered him a kind of independence. In the crusades' time, Arwad was the last bastion of the crusaders before they definitely left for Cyprus.
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