Syria - L'île d'Arwad

The past of Arwad, the ancient "Aradus", the small island 800 meters long and 500 meters wide, constantly challenges that of Tartus, the ancient "Antaradus", facing him on the continent. Does not Antaradus mean, in fact, the city facing Aradus? Arwad, however, possesses the insignificant privilege of going back into history up to the second millennium or more when Tartus-Antaradus did not really emerge until Roman times when Arwad lost its importance and its values ​​as the only island to be inhabited on the Syrian coast between Tripoli and Latakie, endowed with a natural harbor and natural defenses due to its insularity and as a crossroads of Mediterranean international trade between Asia Minor, Cyprus and Rhodes, the islands of the Aegean Sea, Egypt and the Continent.