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Homs
City (pop., 1994 est.: 644,000), central Syria. Located near the Orontes River, as Emesa it contained a great temple to the sun god El Gebal and was the birthplace of the priest-king Elagabalus, who became Roman emperor in AD 218. The emperor Aurelian defeated Queen Zenobia of Palmyra here in 272. It was taken in 636 by the Muslims, who renamed it Hims. In 1516 it passed into Ottoman hands, where it remained until the creation of Syria after World War I. Homs is a thriving agricultural market center, and has oil and sugar refineries. It is the central link between the interior cities and the Mediterranean coast.
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