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Syria
سوريا
العربية [1]سوريا - الجمهورية العربية السورية
تقع الجمهورية العربية السورية في جنوب غرب آسيا على الساحل الشرقي للبحر المتوسط. يحدها من الشمال تركيا، من الشرق العراق، من الجنوب الأردن وإسرائيل ومن الغرب لبنان والبحر المتوسط على امتداد 183 كم من الساحل.}
English Syria - Syrian Arab Republic

The Syrian Arab Republic is a country in the Middle East, bordering ► Lebanon to the west, ► Israel to the southwest, ► Jordan to the south, ► Iraq (with ► Kurdistan) to the east, and ► Turkey to the north. The modern state of Syria attained independence from the French mandate of Syria in 1936, but can trace its historical roots to the fourth millenium BC; its capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mameluke Empire.

Other languages Français: La Syrie est un pays arabe du Moyen-Orient, situé géographiquement en Asie occidentale. Son nom officiel est République Arabe Syrienne. La Syrie se nommait au siècle passé, chez certains habitants de la région, Bilad al-Cham. Cette région fut un temps regroupée et comprenait la Syrie actuelle, le Liban actuel, la Jordanie actuelle, la Palestine (actuels territoires palestiniens et israéliens). Auparavant encore, ces pays étaient distinctement l’antique Phénicie, l'antique Royaume d'Israël (jusqu'à l'Euphrate), la Palestine, l’Assyrie et une partie de la Mésopotamie occidentale.

Kurdî/كورد: Sûrî, welat û dewletek di rojhilata navîn de e. Li wir nêzîkî 18 milyon kes hene.

հայերեն լեզու: Սիրիա (արաբերեն՝ سوريا Սուրիա, կամ سوري Սուրիահ), կամ Սիրիական Արաբական Հանրապետությունը (արաբերեն՝ الجمهورية العربية السورية Ալ-Ջումհուրիահ ալ-Արաբիյահ աս-Սուրիահ) երկիր մըն է Ասիայի հարավ-արևմտքում, Միջերկրականի ափում: Արևմտքում նա սահմանակից է Լիբանանի, հարավ-արևմտքում՝ Իսրայելի, հարավում՝ Հորդանանի, արևելքում՝ Իրաքի եւ հյուսիսում՝ Թուրքիայի: Սիրիայի արդիական երկիրը նախապես Ֆրանսիական հպատակության տակ կը լիներ ու ստացաւ անկախություն 1946 թվում: Սակայն, ան ունի շուրջ 6000 տարվու արմատներ: Սիրիայի մայրաքաղաքը՝ Դամասկոսը, կարևորագոյն քաղաք կը դվեր նախկին իսլամական կայսրություններից:
Short name  Syria
Official name Syrian Arab Republic
Status Independent country since 1936, recognized 1946
Location Middle East
Capital [2] دمشق (Damascus)
Population 25,000,753 inhabitants
Area 185,180 square kilometres (71,500 sq mi)
Major languages Arabic (official), Kurdish
Major religions Islam
More information Syria, Geography of Syria, History of Syria and Politics of Syria
More images Syria - Syria (Category).

General maps

Topographic Map of Syria
Map of Syria
Map of Syria in Arabic
Map of Syria in French
Map of Syria, 2011
Ethnoreligious distribution, 2011
Population density, 2011
Map of Syria, 2004
Governorates of Syria
Districts of Syria

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Syria, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Syria.

  • Districts of Al-Hasakah
    Districts of Al-Hasakah
  • Districts of Aleppo
    Districts of Aleppo
  • Districts of Ar-Raqqah
    Districts of Ar-Raqqah
  • Districts of As-Suwayda
    Districts of As-Suwayda
  • Districts of Daraa
    Districts of Daraa
  • Districts of Deir ez-Zor
    Districts of Deir ez-Zor
  • Districts of Hama
    Districts of Hama
  • Districts of Homs
    Districts of Homs
  • Districts of Idlib
    Districts of Idlib
  • Districts of Latakia
    Districts of Latakia
  • Districts of Quneitra
    Districts of Quneitra
  • Districts of Rif Dimashq
    Districts of Rif Dimashq
  • Districts of Tartous
    Districts of Tartous
Map of the Golan Heights, 2011
Map of the Golan Heights, 1992
Map of Kurdish inhabited areas, 1992

History maps

Fertile Crescent (around 4000 BCE)

Fertile Crescent
Akkadian Empire around 2000 BCE
The Hittite Empire (red) at the height of its power in ca. 1290 BC, bordering on the Egyptian Empire (green)
Hittite Empire
The Assyrian Empire in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire
Neo-Assyrian Empire
The Chaldean Empire around 600 BCE)
The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
Map of the Empire of Alexander
Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
Hellenistic successor states:
 
Kingdom of Ptolemy
 
Kingdom of Cassander
 
Kingdom of Lysimachus
 
Kingdom of Seleucus
 
Epirus
Other states:
 
Carthage
 
Rome
 
Greek colonies
Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
The Parthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)
Map of Parthia 100 BC
Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present
Roman conquest of Minor Asia
Map of the Roman Empire in 50
The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;
 
133 BC
 
44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)
 
AD 14 (death of Augustus)
 
117 (maximum extension)
Northern part of present-day Syria (as of 31 BC)
Roman province of Syria
Camps of the Roman Legions in 80
Map of the Roman Empire in 116
Roman Empire in 117
Roman Empire divided 395, showing the dioceses and praetorian prefectures of Gaul, Italy, Illyricum and Oriens (east), roughly analogous to the four Tetrarch zones of influence after Diocletian's reforms.
The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.
 
Western Roman Empire
 
Eastern Roman Empire
Division of the Roman Empire in 406
Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire Roman Empires, c.476
Eastern Roman Empire
Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
Byzantine Empire 550
Indo-Sassanide Empire
The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.
Sassanide Empire
Sassanide Empire
Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Age of the Caliphs
Caliphate around 750
The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194

Crusaders (around 1200)

The Crusader States
Ayyubid dynasty in 1189
The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190
Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Growth of the Ottoman Empire
[[|border|251x400px]] Map of the Ottoman Empire 1566
Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801
Federation of Arab Republics (Egypt, Libya and Syria)
United Arab Republic
1967 Six Day War
Yom Kippur War 1973
Golan Heights

Syrian civil war (2011-present)

  Map showing the Syrian War

Satellite maps

  Satellite map

Notes and references

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  1. ↑ Romanization: al-Sūriyyah - Al-Jumhūriyyah al-ʿArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah.
  2. ↑ Romanization: Dimashq.

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