PART SIX — OFFENSES AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES CODE

Palmyra was the center of a client state of Rome on its border with the Parthian Empire. It was the terminus of the frankincense trade across the Arabian Peninsula. Its period of glory was the middle 200s A.D. when its ruler Odenathus and then his widow Zenobia exploited a period of weakness in Rome and conquered most of the Roman Middle East. ................
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