Androna

Androna
Arabic: الأندرين
Shown within Syria
Alternate name Al-Andarin
Location Syria
Region Aleppo Governorate
Coordinates 35°32′00″N 37°21′39″E / 35.533248°N 37.360827°E / 35.533248; 37.360827
Site notes
Excavation dates 1905 - ongoing
Archaeologists H.C. Butler (1905)
R. Mouterde, A. Poidebard (1930)
Marges Arides
Syrian Department of Antiquities director Dr. R. Ugdeh
University of Heidelberg director Prof. C. Strube
University of Oxford director Dr. Marlia Mango
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Androna, also known as al-Andarin is a Byzantine site spread over a vast area at the edges of the semi-desert, about 25 kilometers beyond the more well-known Byzantine site of Qasr Ibn Wardan (قصر ابن وردان).

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