Raqqa city, the center of Raqqa Muhafazet, is located in this plain between the Euphrates and its subsidiary Baleikh river in Al-Jazirah region. It’s locations near the crossroads of the Euphrates basin qualified it to become a vital commercial center for the collection of crops, commodity, exchange and export. Above all this city was a center for the emergence of civilization and human gathering since the earliest stage of history. French Archeologist Maurice Davan said that Raqqa was inhabited by human beings in all stags of history. There are ruins in Raqqa plain which prove that the area was inhabited by the man of stone ages (6000-3000 B.C.)

There are also ruins and historical landmarks in Tal Al-Bayaa which prove that the area was inhabited in the Bronze age (3000-2000 B.C.)

But Raqqa Hellenic city which was built by Seleucus under the name (Nicoforium) goes back o the year ( 300-100 B.C.) The Roman-built Raqqa is located east of Baghdad gate district of the today’s city and goes back to the first, second and third centuries A.D. Then there is the Byzantine-built Raqqa which existed during the third and the fourth centuries A.D. in the eighth century, the Abbassite calif Abu Jafaar Al-Mansour built the Raqqa of the Abbassites. Then it became Al-Rasheed city and was extended to the north and east in the ninth century.

Raqqa is one of the most important centers of Arab and plated glass as well as engraved bricks.