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Under Ezron's grandson, Ben-Hadad I (880–841 BC), and his successor Hazael, Damascus annexed Bashan (modern-day Hauran region), and went on the offensive with Israel. This conflict continued until the early 8th century BC when Ben-Hadad II was captured by Israel after unsuccessfully besieging Samaria. As a result, he granted Israel trading ...
The mandate region was subdivided into six states. They were the states of Damascus (1920), Aleppo (1920), Alawites (1920), Jabal Druze (1921), the autonomous Sanjak of Alexandretta (1921) (modern-day Hatay), and the State of Greater Lebanon (1920), which later became the modern country of Lebanon.
The modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. Damascus and Aleppo are cities of great cultural significance. Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital for the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt.
Several sources indicate that the name Syria itself is derived from Luwian term "Sura/i", and the derivative ancient Greek name: Σύριοι, Sýrioi, or Σύροι, Sýroi, both of which originally derived from Aššūrāyu in northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq and greater Syria [4] [5] [8] [9] For Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Syria extended as far north as the Halys (the modern ...
The main temple built in Hadad’s name was located in Aram-Damascus. The fate of this temple is remarkable, under the Roman Empire it was rebuilt as a Temple of Jupiter, during Byzantine times it was turned into a church and after the Arab conquest of Syria it became the biggest mosque of modern day Syria, named Umayyad Mosque.
Early modern; Ottoman Syria (1516–1918) Modern; Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920) French Mandate; ... 150 CE – Damascus became a Roman provincial city under Trajan. [1]
The Decapolis region is located in modern-day Jordan (Philadelphia, Gerasa, Pella and Gadara), ... Damascus: Capital of modern Syria [5] Damascus, Syria
Narrow alley in old Damascus. Due to the rapid decline of the population of Old Damascus (between 1995 and 2009 about 30,000 people moved out of the old city for more modern accommodation), [15] a growing number of buildings are being abandoned or are falling into disrepair. In March 2007, the local government announced that it would be ...