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Masyaf (Arabic: مصياف Miṣyāf) is a city in northwestern Syria. It is the center of the Masyaf District in the Hama Governorate . As of 2004, Masyaf had a religiously diverse population of approximately 22,000 Ismailis , Alawites and Christians.
Masyaf and the surrounding town functioned as the capital of a Nizari emirate from the middle of the 12th century until the end of the 13th century. Saladin besieged it in May 1176, but the siege did not last long and it concluded with a truce. Current research indicates it was held by the Nizari Isma'ilis at that time. [3]
Following are lists of fictional locations, as large as a universe and as small as a pub.. List of fictional bars and pubs; List of fictional castles; List of fictional city-states in literature
A fictional small town of South Park, located within the real life South Park basin in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. [14] The town is also home to an assortment of frequent characters such as students, families, elementary school staff, and other various residents, who tend to regard South Park as a bland and quiet place to live. [15]
The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is an ongoing science fiction/horror project by artist Trevor Roberts that blends multimedia illustrations, writings and immersive world building. The story revolves around the fictional Mystery Flesh Pit, a colossal, ancient superorganism discovered beneath the town of Gumption, Texas, during an oil ...
Correlates to the real-life Romsey, Hampshire: Denton, England R.D. Wingfield: A Touch of Frost: Denton is a town in southern England, in either Berkshire, Oxfordshire, or Wiltshire. Denver Hill, Arizona Jenő Rejtő: Texas Bill, a fenegyerek: Derry, Maine: Stephen King: The Bird and the Album
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Bandera, Real: state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife An excellent illustration of Edwards Plateau flora and fauna. Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge: 1980: Bailey: federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service