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Syria, country located on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Asia. The capital is Damascus. Find a geographical and historical ...
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Daily life and social customs. The family is the heart of Syrian social life. Frequent visits and exchanges of invitations for meals among family members ...
Located between the Orontes and Euphrates rivers, Aleppo, Syria's largest city, is a trade and light-industry centre. The city is well served by roads and ...
Syria's principal limestone quarries are located north and west of Damascus, especially near the city of Aleppo, which itself is built of limestone. Basalt ...
A crisis took place in 1945, when the French refusal to transfer control of the local armed forces led to disorders, culminating in a French bombardment of ...
Britain, and the other, over Syria, went to France. This act effectively separated the area now occupied by Israel and Jordan from that of Syria. In November ...
Local government. Syria is divided into governorates (one of which, Damascus, is a governorate-level city), manāṭiq (districts), and nawāḥī (subdistricts).
Located between the Orontes and Euphrates rivers, Aleppo, Syria's largest city, is a trade and light-industry centre. The city is well served by roads and ...
It was divided into provinces, each under a governor: Damascus, Aleppo, and later Tripoli and Ṣaydā, or Sidon, of which the administrative centre was later ...
Throughout the 15th century, Mamlūk Syria continued to decline, while a new power was growing to the north, that of the Ottoman Turkish sultanate in Asia Minor.