Syria (region)
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Syria, also known as Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine, is a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant. Historically, the term "Syria" ref
The ancient city of Apamea, Syria was an important trading center, and a prosperous city in Hellenistic and Roman times
Ruins at Sergiopolis
Palmyra, one of ancient Syria's wealthiest cities
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, built in 715, is one of the oldest, largest and best preserved mosques in the world.
Arab Kingdom of Syria
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The Syrian Arab Kingdom was an unrecognized monarchy existing briefly in the territory of historical Syria. It was announced on 5 October 1918 as a fully independent Arab constitutional government wit
Syria (region)
…and the Emirate of Transjordan. The term Syria itself was applied to several mandate states under French rule and the contemporaneous but short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria. The Syrian-mandate states were gradually unified as the State of Syria and finally became the independent Syrian Republic in 1946. Throughout this…
Proclamation of Faisal I as King of Syria in 1920.
25 Syrian piastre banknote issued in Beirut by the Bank of Syria in 1919. The Bank of Syria was later renamed the Bank of Syria and Greater Lebanon and continued issuing currency for both Syria and Lebanon until the 1950s.
General Yusuf al-Azma