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| | Syrian Arab Republic |
 | | Officially al-Jumhuriyah al-Arabiyah as-Suriyah, republic, southwestern Asia, bounded on the north by Turkey, on the east by Iraq, on the south by Jordan and Israel, and on the west by Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea. |
 | | During the period when Syria was federated with Egypt in the United Arab Republic (February 1958 through September 1961), governmental involvement in the economic sector was greatly expanded, and in July 1961, shortly before Syria seceded from the union, most industrial concerns were nationalized. |
 | | The Arabs, in alliance with the British and French, fought the Turks for the rest of the war and participated in the capture of Dimashq in 1918. |
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