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
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.
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, concerning the territories of Syria an
Front cover of the Mandate document, 1922
The Syrian National Congress in 1919
General Gourard proclaims the creation of the State of Greater Lebanon
A 10-piastre Syrian stamp used in the Alawite State, bearing an overprint overprinted "ALAOUITES"