Al-Burāq

Burraq lies on the northern edge of the Hauran, south of Damascus, in a plain scattered with villages and ancient remains. The country around nearby Masmiyah forms part of a landscape shaped by basalt, where the cultivated plain meets the stony ground of the Laja. Routes across this region join the Hauran to the Damascus basin. Burraq's fields belong to the agricultural country between those two long-settled centres of southern Syria.