syria
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LOCATION:
32 and 38 N Latitudes
35 and 43 E Longitude
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SYRIA
Jordan
Lebanon andMediterranean
Sea
Turkey
Iraq
Syria is a country located in the Middle East
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Official name: Syrian Arab Republic
Capital: Damascus
Area: total: 185,180 sq kmnote: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory
water: 1,130 sq kmland: 184,050 sq km
Area: total: 185,180 sq kmnote: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory
water: 1,130 sq kmland: 184,050 sq km
Climate: mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet
periodically in Damascus
Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey
Geographic coordinates:
35 00 N, 38 00 E
Comparative Area: slightly larger than North Dakota
Land boundaries: total: 2,253 kmborder countries: Iraq 605 km, Israel 76 km, Jordan 375 km, Lebanon 375
km, Turkey 822 km
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Dederiyeh Cave
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GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS
The area includes about 185,180 square kilometers of deserts, plains, and mountains
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total:185,180 sq km
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EAST-Syrian Desert/Syro-Arabian Desert 200,000
square miles (over 500,000 square kilometers) of the region of Syria
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SOUTH- Jabal al-Druze
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DAMASCUS
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COASTAL PLAIN
TartousAl Ladhiqiyah
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UPLAND AREAS
The highest point in Syria is Mount Hermon (2,814 m; 9,232 ft) on the Lebanese border
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EUPRATES
WATER
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Lake Assad
is a storehouse on EupratesSyria’s largest lake with a maximum capacity of 11.7 cubic kilometres (2.8 cu mi) and a maximum surface area of 610 square kilometres (240 sq mi).
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• mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet
CLIMATE
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DEMOGRAPHICS• Population is about 17million• Syria hosted a population of
refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 1,852,300.
* Iraq (1,300,000), Palestine (543,400) ,
Somalia (5,200)
"the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era"
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ETHNIC GROUPS• Syrians are an overall indigenous Levantine
people, closely related to their immediate neighbours, like Lebanese people, Palestine, Iraqis, Maltese and Jordania.
• Syrian Arabs, together with some 600,000 Palestinian Arabs, make up roughly 74% of the population
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LANGAUAGES
• Arabic is the National Language of Syria
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• Cotton is one of Syria’s main crops.
MOST PRODUCEDPRODUCTS IN SYRIA
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• The textile industry is o ne of the most important in Syria.
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• Petroleum
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EDUCATION
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FOOD
• During Ramadan, each day's fast is broken with an evening meal called iftar.
• A mezzeh is a midday meal composed of up to twenty or thirty small dishes. These dishes can include hummous , a puree of chickpeas and tahini (ground sesame paste); baba ganouj, an eggplant puree; meat rissoles; stuffed grape leaves; tabouleh (a salad of cracked wheat and vegetables); falafel (deep-fried balls of mashed chickpeas); and pita bread.
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MARRIAGE
• By Muslim tradition, marriage is arranged by the couple's families.Nonetheless, the marriage rate has declined because of housing shortages, inflation, rising levels of education, bride money, and the prohibitive cost of weddings.
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In 1953, it passed the Law of Personal Status, under which a man was bound to demonstrate that he could
financially support two wives before marrying the second one.
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Whereas divorce laws used to follow the Arabic tradition that a man had only to repeat three times "I divorce you" (in his wife's presence or not), court proceedings are now required.
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HEALTHInfectious diseases are a major health threat,
especially in rural areas, where water quality is poor and sewage disposal systems are not well
developed.
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• Derived from Herodotus’ habit of referring the whole Mesopotamia as Assyria, 612 BC.
• Seleucid Empire called Syria• Came from the Hebrew and people of the land
where refferd to as “SIRYONS” meaning Armor
ETYMOLOGY
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ARMOR
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FLAG OF SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
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PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD
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FLAG OF SYRIAN NATIONAL COALITION AND OPPOSITION
FORCES
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COAT OF ARMS
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“Syria was one of themost ancient on earth.”
-Joshua J. Mark
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At the time the Ugaritic script was in use (ca.
1300–1190 BCE) It
was discovered 1928 in the
Northern Syria
RAS SHAMRA
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Discovered in early fifties.
The tablets containing 3400 years old and
contained cuneiform signs that provided
musical tone.
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EBLA = TELL MARDIKH
List of food
rations2400 BC
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Oldest known dictionary from
Akkadian Empire with bilingual
wordlist in Summerian and
Akkadian
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“Syria often called as Cradle of Civilization and
Gateway of History.”-Joshua J. Mark
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EBLA TRADED WITH THE MESOPOTAMIANS STATES
OF:
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CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• 539 BC Persians took Syria as part of their empire.
• 333-332 BC Seleucid Empire incorporated Syria. The capital was Antioch.
• 64 BC Roman general Pompey the Great captured Antioch and turning Syria into Roman Province
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Syria is significant in the history of
Christianity
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EMPEROR OF ROME WHO WERE SYRIANS
• Emperor Elagabalus• Alexander Severus• Philip the Arab (Marcus Julius Philippius)
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