This entry is very confusing; Vavilov says he is traveling north from Damascus, north of Aleppo in fact, to the “granary of Syria”. But all accounts I have been able to find reckon that the Hauran, a volcanic plain east of the Golan Heights, is the granary of Syria. What were the borders of “Syria” in 1926? Where was he when he made these notes about wheat in Syria?
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