History UsefulNotes / Syria

!!Syrian media
[[folder:Actors]]
* Creator/MichaelAnsara (Syrian born American)
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheArabOfTheFuture'' (author is Syrian and currently lives in France)
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves'' (author is a Syrian Maronite)
* ''Literature/AHandFullOfStars'' (author is Syrian and currently resides in Germany)
* ''Literature/ThePianistFromSyriaAMemoir'' (author is a Palestinian born in Syria, and the novel is his autobiogaphy as he grows up in Syria during UsefulNotes/BasharAlAssad's regime and the Syrian Civil War)
* ''Literature/TheStoryOfSidiNouman'' (author is a Syrian Maronite)
* ''Literature/TrueHistory'' (author is a 2nd-century Greco-Syrian)
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[[folder:Myths]]
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* Myth/ArabMythology
* Myth/CanaaniteMythology
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* [[WebVideo/TheHungrySyrianWanderer Basel Manadil]] - Syrian-born Filipino vlogger best known for his channel ''The Hungry Syrian Wanderer'' as well as his philanthropy towards indigent Filipinos.
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[[folder:Myths]]
[[index]]
* Myth/ArabMythology
* Myth/CanaaniteMythology

* L''iterature/TheStoryOfSidiNouman'' (author is a Syrian Maronite)

[[folder:Actors]]
* Creator/MichaelAnsara (Syrian born American)
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* [[WebVideo/TheHungrySyrianWanderer Basel Manadil]] - Syrian-born Filipino vlogger best known for his channel ''The Hungry Syrian Wanderer'' as well as his philanthropy towards indigent Filipinos.

* ''ComicBook/TheArabOfTheFuture'' - author is Syrian and currently lives in France.

* Creator/MichaelAnsera (Syrian born American)

* Myth/ArabMythology

* Myth/CanaaniteMythology

* ''Literature/ThePianistFromSyriaAMemoir'' - an autobiography of a Palestinian-Syrian man during the Al-Assad's regime and the Syrian Civil War.

* ''Literature/ThePianistFromSyria'' - an autobiography of a Palestinian-Syrian man during the Al-Assad's regime and the Syrian Civil War.

* Creator/SteveJobs - [[SuddenlyEthnicity Yes]], '''him'''. Co-founder and former CEO of [[{{UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh}} Apple]], the largest shareholder of Creator/{{Disney}}, former CEO of Creator/{{Pixar}}, and one of the most famous figures in the development and expansion of both the computer and entertainment industries. Born to a Syrian Muslim father who emigrated to the US, but didn't know it until [[LukeIAmYourFather much, much later]]. Though of course, this is [[ItWasHisSled pretty much common knowledge]] by now.

Syria ('''Arabic:''' ''سوريا Sūriyā'', or ''سورية Sūrīyah;'' '''Syriac:''' ''ܣܘܪܝܐ''; '''Kurdish:''' ''سوریه‌ Sûrî''), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ('''Arabic:''' ''الجمهورية العربية السورية Al-Jumhūrīyah Al-ʻArabīyah As-Sūrīyah'') is a state in West Asia[=/=]UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast, bordering UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Lebanon}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' have sequences taking place in Masyaf, a historic city with a fortress near Homs.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' and ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations Revelations]]'' take place in Masyaf, a historic city near Homs.

** Vice Presidents: Farouk al-Sharaa and Najah al-Attar

* '''Area:''' 185,180 km
(71,500 sq mi) (87th)

Syria ('''Arabic:''' ''سوريا Sūriyā'', or ''سورية Sūrīyah;'' '''Syriac:''' ''ܣܘܪܝܐ''; '''Kurdish:''' ''سوریه‌ Sûrî''), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ('''Arabic:''' ''الجمهورية العربية السورية Al-Jumhūrīyah Al-ʻArabīyah As-Sūrīyah'') is a state in West Asia, bordering UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Lebanon}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}.

* A two-part episode in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' season 3 involves a dirty bomb set up somewhere in New York. One of the suspects Castle follows a lead on is a Syrian intelligence agent working out of Syria's embassy. [[RedHerring He's not the culprit]].

'''Famous Syrians'''

'''In fiction:'''

Syria ('''Arabic:''' ''سوريا Sūriyā'', or ''سورية Sūrīyah;'' '''Syriac:''' ''ܣܘܪܝܐ''; '''Kurdish:''' ''سوریه‌ Sûrî''), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ('''Arabic:''' ''الجمهورية العربية السورية
Al-Jumhūrīyah Al-ʻArabīyah As-Sūrīyah'') is a state in West Asia, bordering UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Lebanon}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}.

Syria ('''Arabic:''' ''سوريا Sūriyā'', or ''سورية Sūrīyah;'' '''Syriac:''' ''ܣܘܪܝܐ''; '''Kurdish:''' ''سوریه‌ Sûrî''), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ('''Arabic:''' ''الجمهوريةالعربية السورية Al-Jumhūrīyah Al-ʻArabīyah As-Sūrīyah'') is a state in West Asia, bordering UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Lebanon}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}.

Syria ('''Arabic:''' ''سوريا Sūriyā'', or ''سورية Sūrīyah;'' '''Syriac:''' ''ܣܘܪܝܐ''; '''Kurdish:''' ''سوریه‌ Sûrî''), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ('''Arabic:''' ''الجمهورية العربية السورية
Al-Jumhūrīyah Al-ʻArabīyah As-Sūrīyah'') is a state in West Asia, bordering UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Lebanon}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}.

Syria ('''Arabic:''' سوريا / Sūriyā, or سورية Sūrīyah; '''Syriac:''' ܣܘܪܝܐ; '''Kurdish:''' سوریه‌, Sûrî), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ('''Arabic:''' الجمهورية العربية السورية
Al-Jumhūrīyah Al-ʻArabīyah As-Sūrīyah) is a state in West Asia, bordering UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Lebanon}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}.

By the Iron Age, Syria was mainly dominated by the West Semitic Arameans, their place of settlement known as Aram or Eber-Nari (meaning "beyond the river", the river being the Euphrates). During the Neo-Assyrian occupation of Aram, the ancient Greeks conflated Aram with its ruler and began referring to it as "Syria". The Aramaic language was adopted by the Neo-Assyrians as a lingua franca for their whole empire. By the late 6th century BCE, Aramaic had become the dominant language of the Fertile Crescent, stretching from modern-day Israel to Iraq. The Aramaic script was also adopted to write other languages. The Jews, whose language was originally written in Phoenician, adopted Aramaic to write Hebrew during the Babylonian captivity, which continues to this day. Through the Nabataeans, the script was adopted by the Arabs, and through the Persians, it gave birth to the Brahmi script.

Following the Assyrians were the Babylonians, Persians, and finally, the Greeks under UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. After his death, Syria was mainly accorded to the Seleucids, but disputes by the Ptolemaic dynasty led to the prolonged [[UsefulNotes/MacedonianSuccessionWars Syrian Wars]], which severely drained both sides financially and militarily. By 1st century BCE, most of Syria had become an Armenian vassal state and in 64, the fall of the Seleucid capital of Antioch ended the Greek domination of the region.

The Romans, and its successors the Byzantines, ruled Syria from 64 BCE to the 600s CE. Syrians held dominant positions in the Empire during the reign of the Severan dynasty, whose matriarch was of Arab origins. Philip the Arab, one of the more stable emperors of the Crisis of the Third Century, came from today's Jabal Druze region, while the desert city of Palmyra briefly declared independence around the same time to rule over most of the Eastern Roman Empire and was notable for being led by a woman, Zenobia. Syria was also important during the development of Early Christianity; the conversion of Paul the Apostle took place on the road to Damascus.

In 1516, Syria was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, who organized it into four eyalets: Aleppo, Damascus, Rakka, and Tripoli. However, Syria was also taken to mean a much larger area that also encompassed modern-day Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Turkish province of Hatay, surrounding Antakya (ancient Antioch) and the port city of Alexandretta. This explains a lot of the irredentist goals of many postcolonial Syrian governments. In the twilight years of the Ottoman Empire, Syria (specifically, the Syrian Desert around Deir ez-Zor) briefly gained notoriety because it was the main place used by the Turks to exterminate and banish ethnic Armenians and Assyrians during the Armenian Genocide. Thousands of Armenians and Assyrians were sheltered by the Arabs and many continue to live in Syria to this day.

Widespread instability characterized the early years of the Syrian state, with many coups and increasing militarization of the state. In 1958, Syria briefly joined hands with Egypt to create the United Arab Republic, but the agreement fell through three years later because Syria perceived itself as being relegated to the junior partner of the new country. In 1963, a coup installed the Arab nationalist Ba'ath Party to power. A radical reorganization of the party occurred in the early 1970s which purged the Sunni Muslim and Christian base, leaving only the Alawites, led by Hafez al-Assad, to lead the country. There was a Sunni Islamist uprising in 1982, unhappy with the Alawites' governance, that was crushed with utter brutality.

Then there is foreign policy. Syria joined the Eastern bloc early on the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and became an ardent Soviet supporter in the Middle East. It is bitter enemies with Israel, which annexed the Golan Heights during the [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Six-Day War]]. Unlike the Sinai Peninsula, which was returned to Egypt after the Yom Kippur War, Israel retains the Golan Heights to this day, something that irritates Syria to no end, although most of the international world still recognizes the Syrian claim to the territory. After the Iranian Revolution, Syria has also become a close ally of UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, which it supported during the UsefulNotes/IranIraqWar despite Iraq being also a Ba'athist country, and has been hosting Iranian bases that regularly become the target of Israeli strikes. Finally, the country has a history of extensive meddling in Lebanese politics. As mentioned above, Syria still has not gotten over Lebanon's independence and maintains the position that it has the right to intervene in its smaller neighbor. Throughout the Lebanese Civil War, Syria occupied large swathes of eastern and northern Lebanon and continued to hold it even after the war ended, retreating only after domestic and international pressure erupted following the assassination of Rafic Hariri in 2005. Despite this, its legacy in the form of Hezbollah, widely believed to be a proxy of Iran and Syria, remains in Lebanon.

Al-Jumhūrīyah Al-ʻArabīyah As-Sūrīyah) is a state in Western Asia, bordering UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Lebanon}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}.