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	Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
		Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt.
		Syria consists mostly of arid plateau, although the northwest part of the country bordering the Mediterranean is fairly green.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syria (4801 words)

	Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By Pliny's time, however, this larger Syria had been divided into a number of smaller regions: "Palestine" (formerly known as Israel, now the states of Israel and 'Jordan') in the extreme southwest, Phoenicia along the coast, with Damascena to the inland side of Phoenicia, Coele-Syria (or "Hollow Syria") north of the Eleutheris river, and Mesopotamia.
		Syria has been the cradle of some of the world's oldest civilizations, and has been part of the Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Israeli Egyptian, Persian, Greek and Phoenician empires, before becoming part of the (Eastern) Roman Empire.
		Syria consists mostly of arid plateau, although there is a small strip with plain along the coast line with the Mediterranean.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/sy/syria.html (812 words)

	Wikinfo \| Syria
		Syria is known for its support of terrorism and terrorist groups in the Middle East.
		Syria is also know to be the only country in violation of UN resolution 520 for its occupation of Lebanon since 1975.
		With the expansion of Islam in the Middle East in the 7th century, Syria became one of the centres of the new religion.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Syria (674 words)

	Geography of Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Syria is a country in Southwest Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey.
		Considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "Cradle of Humanity." Throughout its history, Syria's political and economic importance has been largely attributable to its position at the crossroads of three continents and several cultures.
		Because of its strategic geographic location, Syria continues to be a focus of transit trade among many countries of the Middle East and to be a vital factor in Arab politics and in Arab-Israeli hostilities.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_Syria (1463 words)

	Syria Geography
		Syria is located in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey.
		The terrain of Syria is primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
		Syria is 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 hitting Damascus.
	www.multied.com /nationbynation/Syria/Geo.html (60 words)

	Syria - Gurupedia
		The name Syria comes from the ancient Greek name for the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Arabia to the south and Cilicia to the north, stretching inland to include
		Judea, Phoenicia along the coast, with Damascena to the inland side of Phoenicia, Coele-Syria (or "Hollow Syria") north of the Eleutheris river, and Mesopotamia.
		Syria has been the cradle of some of the world's oldest civilizations, and has been part of the
	www.gurupedia.com /s/sy/syria.htm (784 words)

	Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria shares common borders with Turkey to the north, the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon to the West, Iraq to the east, and Israel and Jordan to the south.
		One of the major players in Syria's geography are the Jabal an Nusayriyah Mountains and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains that run along the western part of the country, just west of the lowlands and plains that dominate the coastal region.
		Syria must also prove over the next several years that it is not a country that harbors terrorists or has anything to do with terrorism throughout the world.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Projects3/Syria/Syria.html (4577 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Syria
		In religion, the Mohammedans of Syria are Sunnites, or traditionalists—that is, in addition to the written word of the Koran, they recognize the Sunna, a collection of tradition sayings of the Prophet, which is a kind of supplement to the Koran directing the right observance of many things omitted in that book.
		The Greek Orthodox of Syria have 5 schools with 810 pupils in Beirut; 24 in Damascus and surrounding villages, with 2215 pupils and 60 teachers; and 12 in northern Syria with 2400 pupils and 65 teachers.
		The beginnings of Catholic missions in Syria may be appropriately traced back to the age of the Crusaders and the establishment of the Latin Patriarchate of Antioch in 1100, and that of the Vicariate Apostolic of Aleppo in 1762.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14399a.htm (7039 words)

	Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since 1976, Syrian troops have been stationed in Lebanonhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1280579.stm, ostensibly in a peacekeeping capacity (See: History of Lebanon.) In recent years, Syria and Israel have held occasional peace talks over the return of the Golan Heights.
		Echoing the Taif Agreement the resolution "calls upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon" and "reiterating [the UN's] strong support for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence of Lebanon", in implied reference to Syria the power broker in Lebanonhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3608046.stm.
		While nominally a democratic republic, Syria has been led by an authoritarian regime since a 1963 coup by the Baath Party.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Syria.htm (880 words)

	Syria-placeinhistory-footnotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria as a modern geographical term, is to be distinguished from the Syria or Syrians of the English version of the Old Testament.
		Thus it is to be explained that after the Arab conquest of Syria the Greek element in the population rapidly disappeared.
		The chief native churches of Syria are (i) the orthodox Greek, with two patriarchates in Syria—Antioch and Jerusalem; the patriarchs are nominally subject to the Patriarch at Constantinople, and to the Synod there.
	www.dabar.org /Geography/GASmith/Syria-placeinhistory-footnotes.html (2362 words)

	Geography (from Syria) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Geography describes and analyzes the spatial variations in physical, biological, and human phenomena that occur on the surface of the globe and treats their interrelationships and their significant regional patterns.
		Syria is bordered on the north by Turkey, on the east and southeast by Iraq, on the south and southwest by Jordan, on the southwest by Israel, and on the west by Lebanon and the...
		Whereas physical geography is an Earth science concerned with places, social geography is concerned with the people in the places.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214618?tocId=214618 (887 words)

	AllRefer.com - Syria : Economy, Syria (Syrian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria was an overwhelmingly agricultural country until the early 1960s, when planned large-scale industrialization began.
		Petroleum pipelines from Iraq and Jordan cross Syria, and there is also a pipeline from Qarah Shuk to the Mediterranean coast.
		The annual value of Syria's imports is greater than the value of its exports.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Syria-economy.html (394 words)

	Syria-placeinhistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria has been likened to a bridge between Asia and Africa—a bridge with the desert on one side and the sea upon the other; and, in truth, all the great invasions of Syria, with two exceptions, have been delivered across her northern and southern ends.
		Syria is not only the bridge between Asia and Africa: she is the refuge of the drifting populations of Arabia.
		Syria's position between two of the oldest homes of the [12] human race made her a passage for the earliest intercourse and exchanges of civilisation.
	www.dabar.org /Geography/GASmith/Syria-placeinhistory.html (7576 words)

	Syria
		Syria is arid, relying very much upon water coming down from the mountains in Turkey.
		Syria can get very cold in the winter, and snow in the mountains is normal.
		Still, Syria is a country with heavy state control on all sectors of life.
	i-cias.com /e.o/syria.htm (287 words)

	Syria
		Coastal Syria is a narrow plain, in back of which is a range of coastal mountains, and still farther inland a steppe area.
		Syria joined Egypt in attacking Israel in Oct. 1973 in the fourth Arab-Israeli War, but was pushed back from initial successes on the Golan Heights and ended up losing more land.
		Syria responded by moving about 3,000 troops from the vicinity of Beirut to eastern Lebanon, a gesture viewed by many as merely cosmetic.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108016.html (1236 words)

	SESRTCIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria is located at the Eastern end of the Mediterranean.
		Syria’s second longest river is the Orontes, which originates from Lebanon and runs north in the western part of Syria.
		Syria has become an important producer of crude oil in recent years.
	www.sesrtcic.org /members/syr/syrhome.shtml (310 words)

	AllRefer.com - Syria : Land, Syria (Syrian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria falls into two main geographical regions, a western region and a much larger eastern region.
		The western region, which includes about two thirds of the country's population, can be subdivided into four parallel north-south zones.
		There are irrigated, cultivated areas along the Euphrates River in the east, whose basin makes up part of the Fertile Crescent, as does the Mediterranean coast of Syria.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Syria-land.html (373 words)

	The King-Crane Commission Report: Syria: Geography of Claims
		Others desire the unity of Syria under the French Mandate, preferring ordinarily that the Lebanon District should be enlarged and given a high degree of autonomy.
		More time was spent here than anywhere else in Syria, because Damascus will he the capital of United Syria, if such be created, and an Arab government over O. East is already in operation there, showing much activity and endeavoring by accomplishment, display, and intrigue to prepare the way for the larger unity.
		They desire that a strong mandatory power be appointed over Syria, so that they may have full protection; they prefer that Britain be that power, and that the area be annexed to and governed with Palestine.
	www.hri.org /docs/king-crane/syria-claims.html (5379 words)

	Syria map, buy Syria maps and a Syria guidebook from Map Town Ltd.
		A Syria travel guide will help you understand the cultures and take advantage of the advice and experience acquired from other travelers who have been there before you.
		Syria is a Middle East nation, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey.
		The terrain here is primarily semiarid and desert plateau, with a narrow coastal plain and mountains in the west.
	www.maptown.com /syriamaps.html (238 words)

	Learning the Geography of Syria, American Style
		Syria is chastised for not being a party to the Chemical Weapons Convention or the Biological Weapons Convention.
		Not mentioned: Syria is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
		TomDeLay on October 15 warned "Syria is a government at war with the values of the civilized world and a violent threat to free nations and free men everywhere…The United States will not tolerate terrorism, its perpetrators, or its sponsors." (6)
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles9/Hamilton_Syria.htm (1517 words)

	Syria - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is bound by the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon to the west, Israel and Jordan to the southwest, Iraq to the east and Turkey to the north.
		In Apr. 1976 Syria sent troops to Lebanon at the Lebanese President's request in an effort to halt their civil war and since 1979 peace-keeping forces in Lebanon have been made up entirely of Syrian troops.
		In Aug. 1993 Syria and Lebanon formally agreed to establish a permanent secretariat for the Higher Council that was established in May 1991 following their cooperation pact.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/syria.htm (1345 words)

	Israel And Syria
		Syria some of the Golan region, which it has controlled since the 1967
		Syria has long awaited the chance to more directly enlist the U.S. government in resolving the issues.
		Syria itself has 35,000 troops stationed in Lebanon.
	www.yourlearningzone.com /Geography/Israel-And-Syria.html (625 words)

	Syria. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria's predominantly statist economy has been growing slower than its 2.5% annual population growth rate, causing a persistent decline in per capita GDP.
		His most obvious accomplishment to this end was the recent passage of legislation allowing private banks to operate in Syria, although a private banking sector will take years and further government cooperation to develop.
		A long-run economic constraint is the pressure on water supplies caused by rapid population growth, industrial expansion, and increased water pollution.
	www.4humanrights.org /sy (1235 words)

	History (from Syria) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The earliest prehistoric remains of human habitation found in Syria and Palestine (stone implements, with bones of elephant and horse) are of the Middle Paleolithic Period.
		More results on "History (from Syria)" when you join.
		Carchemish (on the modern border between Turkey and Syria) and Milid (Arslantepe, near modern Malatya) were the most important Luwian strongholds of this intermediary age, and both were characterized by the same interaction of Luwian and Hurrian influences that had...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214617 (825 words)

	Geography Of Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/syria_country_geography.shtml (373 words)

	syrian geography information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Its place on the map is always marked by Palestine and its name is sometimes given between quotation marks.
		Geography - note: second-largest country in world (after Russia); strategic location between...
		Borders Syria covers an area of 185,180 sq.
	property-gd.com /articles/27/syrian-geography.html (557 words)

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