syria

LOCATION:

32 and 38 N Latitudes

35 and 43 E Longitude

SYRIA

Jordan

Lebanon andMediterranean

Sea

Turkey

Iraq

Syria is a country located in the Middle East

Official name: Syrian Arab Republic

Capital: Damascus

Area: total: 185,180 sq kmnote: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory

water: 1,130 sq kmland: 184,050 sq km

Area: total: 185,180 sq kmnote: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory

water: 1,130 sq kmland: 184,050 sq km

Climate: 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 in Damascus

Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey

Geographic coordinates:

35 00 N, 38 00 E

Comparative Area: slightly larger than North Dakota

Land boundaries: total: 2,253 kmborder countries: Iraq 605 km, Israel 76 km, Jordan 375 km, Lebanon 375

km, Turkey 822 km

 Dederiyeh Cave

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

The area includes about 185,180 square kilometers of deserts, plains, and mountains 

total:185,180 sq km

EAST-Syrian Desert/Syro-Arabian Desert 200,000

square miles (over 500,000 square kilometers) of the region of Syria

SOUTH- Jabal al-Druze

DAMASCUS

COASTAL PLAIN

 TartousAl Ladhiqiyah

UPLAND AREAS

The highest point in Syria is Mount Hermon (2,814 m; 9,232 ft) on the Lebanese border

EUPRATES

WATER

Lake Assad

is a storehouse on EupratesSyria’s largest lake with a maximum capacity of 11.7 cubic kilometres (2.8 cu mi) and a maximum surface area of 610 square kilometres (240 sq mi).

• mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet

CLIMATE

DEMOGRAPHICS• Population is about 17million• Syria hosted a population of

refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 1,852,300.

* Iraq (1,300,000), Palestine (543,400) ,

Somalia (5,200)

"the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era"

ETHNIC GROUPS• Syrians are an overall indigenous Levantine

people, closely related to their immediate neighbours, like Lebanese people, Palestine, Iraqis, Maltese  and Jordania.

• Syrian Arabs, together with some 600,000 Palestinian Arabs, make up roughly 74% of the population 

LANGAUAGES

• Arabic is the National Language of Syria

• Cotton is one of Syria’s main crops.

MOST PRODUCEDPRODUCTS IN SYRIA

• The textile industry is o ne of the most important in Syria.

• Petroleum

EDUCATION

FOOD

• During Ramadan, each day's fast is broken with an evening meal called iftar.

• A mezzeh is a midday meal composed of up to twenty or thirty small dishes. These dishes can include hummous , a puree of chickpeas and tahini (ground sesame paste); baba ganouj, an eggplant puree; meat rissoles; stuffed grape leaves; tabouleh (a salad of cracked wheat and vegetables); falafel (deep-fried balls of mashed chickpeas); and pita bread.

MARRIAGE

• By Muslim tradition, marriage is arranged by the couple's families.Nonetheless, the marriage rate has declined because of housing shortages, inflation, rising levels of education, bride money, and the prohibitive cost of weddings.

In 1953, it passed the Law of Personal Status, under which a man was bound to demonstrate that he could

financially support two wives before marrying the second one.

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Whereas divorce laws used to follow the Arabic tradition that a man had only to repeat three times "I divorce you" (in his wife's presence or not), court proceedings are now required.

HEALTHInfectious diseases are a major health threat,

especially in rural areas, where water quality is poor and sewage disposal systems are not well

developed.

• Derived from Herodotus’ habit of referring the whole Mesopotamia as Assyria, 612 BC.

• Seleucid Empire called Syria• Came from the Hebrew and people of the land

where refferd to as “SIRYONS” meaning Armor

ETYMOLOGY

ARMOR

FLAG OF SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD

FLAG OF SYRIAN NATIONAL COALITION AND OPPOSITION

FORCES

COAT OF ARMS

“Syria was one of themost ancient on earth.”

-Joshua J. Mark

At the time the Ugaritic script was in use (ca.

1300–1190 BCE) It

was discovered 1928 in the

Northern Syria

RAS SHAMRA

Discovered in early fifties.

The tablets containing 3400 years old and

contained cuneiform signs that provided

musical tone.

EBLA = TELL MARDIKH

List of food

rations2400 BC

Oldest known dictionary from

Akkadian Empire with bilingual

wordlist in Summerian and

Akkadian

“Syria often called as Cradle of Civilization and

Gateway of History.”-Joshua J. Mark

EBLA TRADED WITH THE MESOPOTAMIANS STATES

OF:

CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

• 539 BC Persians took Syria as part of their empire.

• 333-332 BC Seleucid Empire incorporated Syria. The capital was Antioch.

• 64 BC Roman general Pompey the Great captured Antioch and turning Syria into Roman Province

Syria is significant in the history of

Christianity

EMPEROR OF ROME WHO WERE SYRIANS

• Emperor Elagabalus• Alexander Severus• Philip the Arab (Marcus Julius Philippius)