Proper noun
the Hauran
A volcanic plateau and geographic area located in southwestern Syria and extending into the northwestern corner of Jordan.
In the Hauran in Syria, where timber is scarce the doors were made in stone, and one measuring convert by convert is in the British Museum; the band on the meeting stile shows that it was one of the leaves of a double door. Source: Internet
It told of a journey he made in 1898, during the holidays following his first year at Cambridge, that took him north of to the remote and mountainous Druse country of the Hauran, an area where few Westerners had ever set foot. Source: Internet
When in 1925 the Great Syrian Revolt in the Hauran spread to Damascus, the French suppressed with heavy weaponry, bombing and shelling the city on 9 May 1926. Source: Internet