1) City in Syria 
Shahba (شهبا / ALA-LC: Shahbā), known in Late Antiquity as Philippopolis, is a city located 87 km south of Damascus in the Jabal el Druze in As-Suwayda Governorate of Syria, but formerly in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. ==History== ===Roman history=== The oasis settlement now named, Shahba, had been the native hamlet of Philip the Ara...