Rumi lived most of his life under the Persianate Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, where he produced his works and died in 1273 AD. He was buried in Konya , and his shrine became a place of pilgrimage. [45] Upon his death, his followers and his son Sultan Walad founded the Mevlevi Order , also known as the Order of the Whirling Dervishes, famous for the ...

Hippos (Ancient Greek: Ἵππος, lit. 'horse') or Sussita (Aramaic, Hebrew: סוסיתא) is an ancient city and archaeological site in the former Israel-Syria DMZ, located on a hill on the slopes of the Golan Heights overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Hippos was a Hellenistic city in the northern Jordan Valley, and a long-time member of the Decapolis, a league of ten cities more closely tied ...