Syria (disambiguation)

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Syria is a country in the Middle East, incorporating the northern Levant.

Syria may also refer to:

Geography and history

Syria (region) refers to a wider historical geographic region. In this sense it can refer to:

In modern Middle East

  • Arab Kingdom of Syria, a short-lived Hashemite kingdom in 1920, installed after World War I and abolished by the French
  • French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
    , incorporating the:
    • State of Syria (1924–30)
      , Mandatory proto-state, a progenitor of Mandatory Syrian Republic
  • Syrian Arab Republic
    , a modern day UN member country
    • Democratic Federation of Northern Syria
      , a self-proclaimed autonomous federation in Northern Syria
  • Syrian opposition, a pseudo-state of the Syrian opposition as alternative to Ba'athist Syria
  • Tahrir al-Sham Emirate
  • Syrian areas occupied by the
    Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria

Ancient and classic Near East

  • Syro-Hittite states, during the Early Iron Age
  • Coele-Syria, a province of the Seleucid Empire and the coastal Levantine province of the Roman Empire split from Syria Palaestina in the late 2nd century CE
  • Roman Syria, a Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE
  • Syria Palaestina, a Roman province between 135 CE and 390 CE
  • Byzantine Syria
    , a sub-region within Byzantine Diocese of the East
    • Syria Prima, a province of the Byzantine Empire, transformed from former Roman Syria
    • Syria-Coele (Roman province)
      , a province of the Byzantine Empire, transformed from former Roman Syria
  • Bilad al-Sham, a province of the early Caliphates, corresponding to former Byzantine Syria
  • Ottoman Syria, a geopolitical region of Levantine provinces of the Ottoman Empire
    • Damascus Eyalet until 19th century
    • Syria Vilayet
      after the Tanzimat reforms in 19th century

Incorporation of the geographic term Syria outside of the Middle East

Art, entertainment, and media

Other uses

  • Syria (ship), sailing ship launched in 1868
  • Syria (singer), the pseudonym of Cecilia Cipressi, an Italian singer-songwriter
  • Greater Syria
    , either an Arab nationalistic term to define large parts of the Middle East or another name for the Syrian region

See also