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Termānîn November 25th November 25, 1899

About three miles north east of Dâna
is the modern village of Termānîn, there
are no ruins here altho' the village is
constructed largely of materials taken from the
ancient site, an hour further to the North East,
called by the natives Dêr Termānîn.

De Vogüe visited this site on his journey and
described, at length, a large and beautiful church
and an extensive ecclesiastical inn, calling
the place Termānîn. In all probablity
the present village had not then been built
and the ruins went by the above name
which was afterwards transferred to the
modern town.

The church which DeVogüé described and
finely illustrated was one of the finest and
best preserved monuments published by him.
We were shocked to find that that magnificant
structure had totally disappeared, had been
broken up, bit by bit, to build the new village of
Termānîn.