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	Greater Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greater Syria, also known (in a historic context) as Syria, or Bilad ash-Sham (Arabic: بلاد الشام) is an irredentist term that denotes a historic region in the Middle East bordering the Mediterranean.
		It is generally considered to comprise roughly the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, the Palestinian Territories, the settled areas of Jordan, the Sinai and Hatay Province in Turkey.
		In the Syrian nationalist ideology developed by Antun Saada, Greater Syria is seen as the geographic environment in which the Syrian nation state evolved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Syria (164 words)

	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 (now in Turkey), 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 (7053 words)

	Syria - History
		Even though it was exploited politically, Greater Syria benefited immeasurably from the cultural diversity of the peoples who came to claim parts or all of it and who remained to contribute and participate in the remarkable spiritual and intellectual flowering that characterized Greater Syria's cultures in the ancient and medieval periods.
		Because Greater Syria was usually ruled by foreigners, the inhabitants traditionally identified themselves with their cities, and in contemporary Syria each city continues to have a unique sociopolitical character.
		The history of Greater Syria in the early medieval period is essentially the history of political Islam at one of its most glorious moments--the period of the Umayyad caliphate when the Islamic empire, with its capital at Damascus, stretched from the Oxus River to southern France.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/syria/history.htm (8686 words)

	COUNTRY PROFILE: SYRIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Present-day Syria is only a small portion of the ancient geographical Syrian landmass, a region situated at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea from which Western powers created the contemporary states of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel in the post-Ottoman era of the early twentieth century.
		Greater Syria, as historians and political scientists often refer to this area, is a region connecting three continents, simultaneously cursed and blessed as a crossroads for commerce and a battleground for the political destinies of dynasties and empires.
		Syria’s electric supply capacity is an important national priority, and the government hopes to add 3,000 MW of power generating capacity by 2010 at a probable cost of US$2 billion, but progress has been slowed by a lack of investment capital.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_profiles/2004-2005/Syria.html (11377 words)

	ANCIENT SYRIA
		The first recorded mention of Greater Syria is in Egyptian annals detailing expeditions to the Syrian coastland to log the cedar, pine, and cypress of the Ammanus and Lebanon mountain ranges in the fourth millennium.
		Syria's greatest legacy, the alphabet, was developed by Phoenicians during the second millennium.
		Aramaic displaced Hebrew in Greater Syria as the vernacular (Jesus spoke Aramaic), and it became the language of commerce throughout the Middle East and the official language of the Persian Empire.
	countrystudies.us /syria/3.htm (1547 words)

	Misc Study: The History of Syria
		The Aramaeans settled in the Mesopotamian-Syrian corridor to the north and established the kingdom of Aram, biblical Syria.
		The union of Syria and Egypt in the United Arab Republic (UAR) was announced on February 1, 1958, and later ratified by a plebiscite in each country.
		In Syria a major pro-Nasserite military coup attempt in early July was put down with severity by Hafiz, the minister of interior and military governor.
	philologos.org /bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms018.htm (15003 words)

	A ‘Greater Israel’ In The Making: Experts
		The professor said on Tuesday, April 14, that the warnings given to Syria by the U.S. were strong enough to indicate that the Middle Eastern nation was the next target in a “cleansing” of the region.
		Syria has been accused of producing chemical weapons, of hiding Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction - which should include nuclear war heads - said Professor Abdullai, and of harboring former members of the defunct regime in Baghdad.
		He believes the ‘greater Israel’ will see the day since the U.S. is now being lobbied by pro-Jewish influence in Washington that has led to the Iraq war and is now turning towards Syria and other Muslim nations in the Middle East.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article2987.htm (844 words)

	Syria
		The rest of Syria was divided into five semiautonomous areas- -the Jabal Druze, Aleppo, Latakia, Damascus, and Alexandretta (modern Iskenderun)--which accentuated religious differences and cultivated regional, as opposed to national pan-Arab, sentiment.
		During the period of the French Mandate, Syria's leaders--though often competing with each other for power--were generally united in their single goal of freedom from French rule.
		During the civil war that lasted 10 days, Syria sent some 200 tanks (nominally of the Palestine Liberation Army--PLA) to aid the PLO forces.
	www.metrocast.net /~moza/syria.htm (14953 words)

	"Greater Syria"
		It should be highlighted that the recurring territorial empires arising in Syria under the mantles of the various forming elements of the Syrian nation, have contributed to the maintenance and promotion of the unity of life.
		The question of limiting the term 'Syria' to the western part of the Fertile Crescent is examined by another historian in the same collection, Fergus Millar: 'By 'Syria' I mean anywhere west of the Euphrates and south of the Amanus mountains-essentially therefore the area west of the Euphrates where Semitic languages were used...
		A recent study of Jawad Boulas has found the same trend in his discussion of geographical Syria: a tendency to consider it as a whole, a single distinct region; and a tendency to meticulously examine its geographical structure and regard it as a collection of regions.
	www.ssnp.com /old/article.htm (6372 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Syria / Glossary
		Member of a religious community located in the southern part of Syria that is the third largest religious group of the country.
		Term used by historians and others to designate the region that includes approximately the present-day states of Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria before those states were formed.
		In 1981 Syria returned to a multitier exchange rate, establishing a parallel rate for the pound to float freely against major world currencies.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/syria/sy_glos.html (1061 words)

	Twenty-Two Layers in the History of Greater Syria
		The existence of Ebla somewhere was known from Babylonian cuneiform tablets, and northern Syria is dotted with low hills, called tells, which are actually the remains of many layers of settlement over the millennia.
		In the third millennium B.C. Ebla was the center of a kingdom that controlled all of northern Syria, and mediated the trade between Mesopotamia and Egypt.
		It fell into decline around 2000 B.C., rose to prominence again in the middle of the second millennium B.C., and was finally destroyed by the Hittites.
	www.isi.edu /~hobbs/middle-east-web/node7.html (7191 words)

	Reviving the greater Syria project
		In its Monday issue's editorial, the weekly called for returning to reviving the project for "Greater Syria," even within the context of a minimum level within the framework of a confederation including Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon for the meantime and later to contain Palestine after the establishment of the real Palestinian state.
		The weekly added that organizing Syria, Lebanon and Jordan in a confederation state would strengthen Jordan's political positions and strengthen its water, economic and security conditions.
		The paper called for strategic integration relations between Amman, Damascus and Beirut which will be gradually conducive to the establishment of "Bilad al-Shaam" confederation, and thereby put the stick in the wheel of the "Greater Israel" project.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/990407/1999040763.html (339 words)

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