Serjilla

Serjilla (Arabic: سيرجيلة) is one of the best preserved of the Dead Cities in northwestern Syria, containing about 700 sites.

[1] The settlement arose in a natural basin and prospered from cultivating of grapes and olives.

[further explanation needed] Next to the baths stands an andron, a meeting place for men.

Like most other of the Dead Cities, Serjilla was abandoned in the seventh century when the Arabs conquered the region and discontinued merchant routes between Antioch and Apamea.

In 2011, because of the Syrian civil war, UNESCO put Serjilla on the list World Heritage in Danger.