The Abana river, showing a dam, a platform which cantilevers out above the river and a fence of saplings. The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(I. Chron., xviii:5-6.

There would be no Damascus were it not for the Abana river. The stream breaks through a gorge in the Lebanon mountains a few miles above the city, and at once begins a warfare with the desert. For 25 ...

The Barada river, known in ancient times as Abana, ... In the 16th Century it was along the banks of the Barada river on the outskirts of Damascus that the first coffee houses grew up.