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| | Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Contains: Abilene, Aleppo, Arpad, Arvad, Bashan, Batanaea, Carchemish, Damascus, Ebla, Emesa, Gamgum, Gan Dunias, Hamath, Homs, Latakia, Marathus, Mari, the Nizari, the Nusayri, Palmyra, Syria (General Survey), Tel Barsip, Ugarit, Unqi, Yamkhad, Zimru. |
 | | Arpad allied with Urartu against the Assyrians, and was beseiged for three years. |
 | | Nonetheless, they eventually became the most economically successful group in Syria, and today are the dominant sect in that country, including among their numbers the ruling Assad family, a disproportionately large percentage of the armed forces' upper echelons, and many cabinet ministers. |
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