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Cholle

Khoulle

Cholle, at Khoulle, stands on the map as the third station from Palmyra on the road to Sura, between Oruba and Risapa, and the Ravenna list has the same order. Arab reports suggest, however, that two names have been swapped: the town would then be the second stop, before Oruba, and match the site of Sukhne. The geographer Ptolemy knows it too. The map counts twenty-two Roman miles from Oruba and twenty on to Risapa, though the start of that last stretch is not marked.

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