Al-Jabbūl

Al-Jabbul lies beside a great salt lake southeast of Aleppo. Rain and streams from the surrounding valleys gather in the shallow basin, whose salty ground has long supplied the prized Jabbuli salt. Reeds fringe parts of the wetland, and migratory waterbirds rest and feed there. The salt lake and the cultivated country around it form a distinctive landscape on the edge of the Syrian steppe.