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Syria (Arabic: سوريا), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in the Middle East. It borders Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. Israel once occupied the Golan Heights in the southwest of the country; a dispute with Turkey over the Hatay Province now seems to have subsided. Historically, Syria has often been taken to include the territories of Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and parts of Jordan, but excluding the Jazira region in the north-east of the modern Syrian state. In this historic sense, the region is also known as Greater Syria or by the Arabic name Bilad al-Sham.
Name
The name Syria comes from the ancient Greek name for the land of Aram at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Arabia to the south and Cilicia to the north, stretching inland to include Mesopotamia, and having an uncertain border to the northeast that Pliny the Elder describes as including from west to east Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene, "formerly known as Assyria" (N.H. 5.66). By Pliny's time, however, this larger Syria had been divided into a number of provinces under the Roman Empire (but politically independent from each other): Judaea (or "Judea" and later renamed Palestine in AD 135—the region corresponding to the modern states of Israel and Jordan and the Palestinian territories) in the extreme southwest, Phoenicia corresponding to Lebanon, with Damascena to the inland side of Phoenicia, Coele-Syria (or "Hollow Syria") south of the Eleutheris river, and Mesopotamia.
Syrian people, however, call their country "Souria" or "Sooria." This name is a variation of "syria," and is used in Arabic as well.
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Brighten ur life & follow Jado, the 1st Syrian baby on Twitter @jado9 :-) Cool, light hearted tweets from the heart of Damadcus. Pls RT
abdulhaykal (Abdulsalam Haykal) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:06:39 -0000
Brighten ur life & follow Jado, the 1st Syrian baby on Twitter @jado9 :-) Cool, light hearted tweets from the heart of Damadcus. Pls RT
im thanking god right now . for many things .. first that im muslim .. second that im syrian .. thank you god
emoXlina (lina shaglil) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:35:43 -0000
im thanking god right now . for many things .. first that im muslim .. second that im syrian .. thank you god
Syrian, Bahraini parliament speakers to visit Iran - http://tinyurl.com/yc7rdp5 #i
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