• Thumbnail for Roman Syria
    Roman Syria was an early Roman province annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War following the defeat of King of Armenia...
    21 KB (2,098 words) - 04:43, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Syria Palaestina
    Syria Palaestina (Koinē Greek: Συρία ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanizedSyría hē Palaistínē [syˈri.a (h)e̝ pa.lɛsˈt̪i.ne̝]) was the renamed Roman province formerly...
    42 KB (5,219 words) - 19:55, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Syria (region)
    Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔒂𔒠‎ Sura/i; Greek: Συρία; Classical Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ; Arabic: ٱلشَّام, romanized: Ash-Shām) is a historical region located...
    60 KB (6,042 words) - 04:38, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Syria
    Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arameans, Amorites, Persians, Greeks and Romans. Syria is considered to have emerged as an independent country for the first...
    104 KB (11,660 words) - 12:46, 21 October 2024
  • Roman province of Syria. From 27 BC, the province was governed by an imperial legate of consular rank. The province was divided in AD 193 into Syria Coele...
    10 KB (352 words) - 15:19, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coele-Syria
    Coele-Syria (/ˈsiːli ... /; Ancient Greek: Κοίλη Συρία, romanized: Koílē Syría, lit. 'Hollow Syria') was a region of Syria in classical antiquity. The...
    50 KB (6,095 words) - 08:35, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Muslim conquest of the Levant
    فَتْحُ الشَّام, romanized: Fatḥ al-šām; lit. "Conquest of Syria"), or Arab conquest of Syria, was a 634–638 CE invasion of Byzantine Syria by the Rashidun...
    48 KB (6,362 words) - 22:23, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Judaea (Roman province)
    the official census instituted by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, the governor of Roman Syria, caused tensions and led to an uprising by Jewish rebel Judas of Galilee...
    37 KB (3,725 words) - 17:55, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Syria
    Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean...
    254 KB (23,676 words) - 16:13, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Syrians
    created Roman province as "Syrians",[better source needed] so did Strabo, who observed that Syrians resided west of the Euphrates in Roman Syria, and he...
    83 KB (8,312 words) - 09:46, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman–Seleucid war
    The Roman–Seleucid war (192–188 BC), also called the Aetolian war, Antiochene war, Syrian war, and Syrian-Aetolian war was a military conflict between...
    41 KB (5,110 words) - 18:09, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coele Syria (Roman province)
    Coele Syria (Greek: Κοίλη Συρία, Koílē Syría) was a Roman province which Septimius Severus created with Syria Phoenice in 198 by dividing the province...
    12 KB (1,315 words) - 14:24, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apamea, Syria
    and Roman city. It was the capital of Apamene under the Macedonians, became the capital and Metropolitan Archbishopric of late Roman province Syria Secunda...
    24 KB (2,668 words) - 01:06, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arabia Petraea
    Arabia Petraea (redirect from Roman Arabia)
    Palma Frontonianus was governor of Syria, the part of Arabia under the rule of Petra was absorbed into the Roman Empire as part of Arabia Petraea, and...
    16 KB (1,860 words) - 11:08, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phoenice (Roman province)
    Phoenice (Latin: Syria Phoenīcē Latin: [ˈsʏri.a pʰoe̯ˈniːkeː]; Koinē Greek: ἡ Φοινίκη Συρία, romanized: hē Phoinī́kē Syría Koinē Greek: [(h)e pʰyˈni.ke...
    12 KB (1,019 words) - 10:02, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christianity in Syria
    increasingly. Roman Rite, Western Latin Church Catholicism and Protestantism were introduced by missionaries but only a small number of Syrians are members...
    58 KB (5,138 words) - 02:29, 24 October 2024
  • century CE Roman Syria, a Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE Syria Palaestina, a Roman province between 135 CE and 390 CE Byzantine Syria, a sub-region...
    3 KB (434 words) - 15:17, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flag of Syria
    The national flag of Syria was first adopted in 1958 to represent Syria as part of the United Arab Republic, and was used until 1961. It was readopted...
    46 KB (2,698 words) - 20:03, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Name of Syria
    interchangeably. In the Roman Empire, the terms Syria and Assyria came to be used as names for distinct geographical regions. "Syria" in the Roman period referred...
    28 KB (2,895 words) - 15:26, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palmyra
    Palmyra (redirect from Palmyra, Syria)
    (), romanized: Tadmor; Arabic: تَدْمُر, romanized: Tadmur) is an ancient city in the eastern part of the Levant, now in the center of modern Syria. Archaeological...
    224 KB (22,748 words) - 19:26, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Damascus
    Damascus (redirect from Damascus, Syria)
    also /dəˈmɑːskəs/ də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and...
    129 KB (13,718 words) - 13:39, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laodicea in Syria
    important colonia of the Roman Empire in ancient Syria, near the modern city of Latakia. It was also called Laodicea in Syria or Laodicea ad mare. Under...
    9 KB (1,122 words) - 10:34, 24 October 2024
  • Syria Phoenicia (also Syro-Phoenicia, adjectival Syro-Phoenician) may refer to: Phoenicia under Hellenistic rule Phoenicia under Roman rule Phoenice (Roman...
    480 bytes (83 words) - 16:48, 26 April 2019
  • Thumbnail for Jewish–Roman wars
    of Jerusalem, which the Romans rebuilt into the pagan colony of Aelia Capitolina, and the province of Judaea was renamed Syria Palaestina. Collectively...
    37 KB (4,498 words) - 18:51, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Idlib
    Idlib (redirect from Idlib, Syria)
    Idlib (Arabic: إِدْلِب, romanized: ʾIdlib, pronounced [ʔid.lib]; also spelt Idleb or Edlib) is a city in northwestern Syria, and is the capital of the...
    20 KB (1,638 words) - 06:13, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Jewish–Roman War
    Jews petitioned the governor of Syria to get the official removed, Roman Judea being essentially a "satellite of Syria". The years 7–26 CE were relatively...
    67 KB (8,219 words) - 01:31, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ottoman Syria
    Ottoman Syria (Arabic: سوريا العثمانية) is a historiographical term used to describe the group of divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the region of...
    17 KB (1,542 words) - 13:04, 22 October 2024
  • frequently with more civil wars. 303: Failed usurpation of Eugenius in Roman Syria Civil wars of the Tetrarchy (306–324), beginning with the usurpation...
    35 KB (4,330 words) - 17:19, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geography of Syria
    Syria is located in West Asia, north of the Arabian Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Lebanon...
    17 KB (2,009 words) - 20:07, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Syrian Armed Forces
    The Syrian Arab Armed Forces (SAAF; Arabic: القوات المسلحة العربية السورية, romanized: al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥah al-ʿArabīyah as-Sūrīyah) are the military...
    70 KB (6,916 words) - 13:31, 31 October 2024