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Studies In The History Of The Roman Province Of Syria (1915) by Gustave Adolphus Harrer, 2010-05-22 Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria from the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period: From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman (History of Warfare) Syria under Bashar al-Asad: Modernisation and the Limits of Change (Adelphi series) (Volume 0) by Volker Perthes, 2006-07-28 Early Islamic Syria: An Archaeological Appraisal (Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo) (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) by Alan Walmsley, 2007-06-27 Syria under Bashar al-Asad: Modernisation and the Limits of Change (Adelphi series) (Volume 0) by Volker Perthes, 2006-07-28 Early Islamic Syria: An Archaeological Appraisal (Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo) (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) by Alan Walmsley, 2007-06-27 The History of Al-Tabari: The Battle of Al-Qadisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine (Tabari//History of Al-Tabari/Ta'rikh Al-Rusul Wa'l-Muluk) Post-Colonial Syria and Lebanon: The Decline of Arab Nationalism and the Triumph of the State (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) by Youssef Chaitani, 2007-05-15 Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life (Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, Vol 7) by K. Van Der Toorn, 1996-03-01 History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria, and Asia Minor, Volume 2 by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez, et all 2010-03-29 With the Foreign Legion in Syria (Life on the Edge series) by John Harvey, 2003-04-01 The Cities of Seleukid Syria by John D. Grainger, 1990-05-31 Shifting Sands and Savage Jungle: the Memories of a Frontline Infantryman (Military history memoirs series) by George Tarlington, 1996-09-30 Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography: Al-Yunini's Dhayl Mirat Al-Zaman (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, V. 21) (v. 1 & 2) by Li Guo, Musa Ibn Muhammad Yunini, 1998-02-01

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81. Troovel.com
    syria / history and Government Muslim control of syria was vital to the defeat of the Christians and their expulsion from Jerusalem.  
    http://troovel.com/country/syria/1439/HistoryGovernment/en
    
    Extractions: The 19th century was a period of increasing restlessness in the area ? Napoleon's campaign in 1799/1800, the Egyptian invasion in the 1830s and the insurrection in 1860-61 are three instances of this. The Turks were defeated in World War I and Syria was occupied by the French for a short time, before Syria was granted full independence in 1946. Three years later, the country came under the first of a series of military dictatorships that have governed the country for most of the subsequent period. As in the rest of the Middle East, Arab nationalism became a major political force during the 1950s ? indeed, the influence of Nasser's revolution in Egypt on the Syrians was so strong that Syria joined Egypt in forming the United Arab Republic in 1958. The alliance was short-lived, Syria seceding in 1961, to form the Syrian Arab Republic. The most powerful political force in Syria since then has been the Ba'ath Party or Arab Socialist Renaissance (see Iraq ), which seized power in 1971, under the leadership of General Hafez al-Assad, who ruled at the head of a tightly controlled dictatorship, until his death in June 2000. Assad's main power base was the Alawite group, a Muslim sect to which 10 per cent of the Syrian population is affiliated. With the tactical and strategic skill that was his trademark, Assad comfortably dealt with the challenges to his supremacy ? largely through his control of the army and the country's myriad intelligence organisations.

82. BikeAbout: A Brief History Of Syria
    BikeAbout has compiled this list of Internet sites we believe will be helpful to people who want to learn more about syria and the syrian people.  
    http://www.bikeabout.org/resource/syr-hist.htm
    
    Extractions: A brief history of Syria , officially known as Al Jumhuriyah al Arabiyah as Suriyah, or the Syrian Arab Republic The first concept Like a game of "Hot Potato," the country was passed from the Assyrians to the Chaldeans and then the Chaldeans to the Persians (538 BC) before Alexander the Great made it a part of his empire (in 333 and 332 BC). The Seleucids eventually came to control all of what is now know as Syria, as well as the region then known as Palestine, and much of the rest of western Asia. Finally , in 64 BC, the unstoppable tide of the Roman Empire swept over the Middle East and Syria was made a province. When the vast Roman dominions were divided into two sections (in 395 AD), Syria became and remained a Byzantine province for almost 250 years. With the spread of the Islamic Empire Damascus , in 661, became the seat of the powerful Omayyid caliphs. It was during this time, under the reign of Abdul Malek bin Marwan and his sons, that Damascus became one of the most important and glamorous cities of the Muslim world, not to mention the known world. The Omayyid Empire would eventually stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the borders of China, surpassing even the Roman Empire in terms of area. (A interesting bit of trivia: It was during this time that the first postal system was developed.) Damascus, with its new, great mosque , was at the center of this empire. Culture, architecture, art, science and administration prospered.

83. BBC NEWS | Middle East | France And Syria: A Tangled History
    Paris correspondent Allan Little visits Damascus to try to uncover what pressure, if any, France is bringing to bear on syria.  
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3635650.stm
    
    Extractions: Assad and Chirac: France has long had involvement with Syria When Syria's old ruler Hafez al-Assad died in 2000 most western leaders stayed away from his funeral. The United States, after all, blames Syria for harbouring terrorist groups, and for failing to disclose stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. But not French President Jacques Chirac. He went to the funeral rites of the dead potentate. It is said that, that day, the French president told the young son and heir, Bashar al-Assad: "I extended the hand of friendship to your father, and I extend it to you today." France has been present in what used to be known as the Levant for a millennium. The landscape of Syria is dotted with the magnificent fortified castles that the Crusaders - the founders of the medieval Frankish kingdoms - left behind.

84. Arabic News Weekly Edition For Syria, 5/7/2001
    Very early in history syria has been outstanding as a land of civilizations and a cradle of religions, where nearly every nation in the world would find  
    http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Weekly/Syria/20010507.html

85. Arabic News Weekly Edition For Syria, 4/30/2001
    syria is written in history as the cradle of Jesus mission of peace and love, from where it syria, history, 5/3/2001 syria has yet to legalize forums  
    http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Weekly/Syria/20010430.html
    
    Extractions: Damascus, the cradle of divine religions receives today ( on the steps of the messenger of nations, Paul), Pope John Paul II in his first visit to Syria after he had concluded a similar visit to Greece in which he offered apology to the Orthodox Christians who were exposed to faults committed against them by the Catholics and asked them forgiveness. One of the main stops in the visit of the Pope is a visit to the Umayyad's mosque which is rich in religious symbols, as it contains the tomb of John the Baptist ( Prophet Yahya for Muslims).

86. FRONTLINE/WORLD . Dispatches From A Small Planet . Lebanon/Syria, April 2005 - L
    Lebanon s history of Occupation In one form or another, syria has exerted its influence over Lebanon for nearly a century. By Kate Seelye  
    http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/dispatches/lebanon.syria/seelye1.html

87. The New Yorker: Fact
    The secret history of America’s “extraordinary rendition” program. Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was born in syria, was surprised to learn of  
    http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050214fa_fact6
    
    Extractions: On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview with the Times, The extraordinary-rendition program bears little relation to the system of due process afforded suspects in crimes in America. Terrorism suspects in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East have often been abducted by hooded or masked American agents, then forced onto a Gulfstream V jet, like the one described by Arar. This jet, which has been registered to a series of dummy American corporations, such as Bayard Foreign Marketing, of Portland, Oregon, has clearance to land at U.S. military bases. Upon arriving in foreign countries, rendered suspects often vanish. Detainees are not provided with lawyers, and many families are not informed of their whereabouts. allow A more elaborate operation was staged in Tirana, Albania, in the summer of 1998. According to the Wall Street Journal Journal, Albanian security forces, working with U.S. agents, killed one suspect and captured Attiya and four others. These men were bound, blindfolded, and taken to an abandoned airbase, then flown by jet to Cairo for interrogation. Attiya later alleged that he suffered electrical shocks to his genitals, was hung from his limbs, and was kept in a cell in filthy water up to his knees. Two other suspects, who had been sentenced to death in absentia, were hanged.

88. WHKMLA : History Of Syria, ToC
    Global Currency history syria Worldwide Refugee Information syria, from US Committee for Refugees Entry Latakia, from Footnotes to history,  
    http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/arabworld/xsyria.html

89. Inquiry And Analysis Series - No. 225
    hopes that the convention would be the greatest leap in syria s history, see the upcoming convention as the most significant in syria s history.  
    http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=syria&ID=IA22505

90. Images From World History: Syria Under The Ummayads And `Abbasids (7-11th C. A.D
    Images from World history syria under the Ummayads and `Abbasids (711th cAD)  
    http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/syria/efsyria.html

91. Images From World History: Feudal Syria (7-19th C. A.D.)
    Images from World history Feudal syria (719th cAD)  
    http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/syria/

92. Greater Syria: The History Of An Ambition - By Daniel Pipes
    Greater syria The history of an Ambition by Daniel Pipes.  
    http://www.danielpipes.org/books/greaterchap.php
    
    Extractions: - Lord Palmerston, 1840 On first entering Syria, the observant traveler will probably be startled to go through passport control and notice a military map of Syria on the wall, for this map contains several anomalies. It shows the Golan Heights under Syrian control, though they have been occupied by Israel since 1967. Syria's boundaries with Lebanon and Jordan appear not as international borders but as something called "regional" borders. Israel does not even exist; instead, there is a state called Palestine. And Palestine is separated from Syria by a line designated a "temporary" border". Finally, the province of Hatay, a part of Turkey since 1939, appears to be included in Syria; only on close inspection can one see the "temporary" border between it and Syria. The many inaccuracies on this map reflect the Syrian rulers' profound unwillingness to accept the actual size and shape of the country they administer. They remember that until 1920, "Syria" referred to a region much larger than the Syrian Arab Republic of today, a region that stretched from the borders of Anatolia to those of Egypt, from the edge of Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of today's states, the Syria of old comprised Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, plus the Gaza Strip and Alexandretta. This larger land, known since 1920 as Greater Syria, is what they dream of reclaiming.

93. Greater Syria: The History Of An Ambition - By Daniel Pipes
    Greater syria The history of an Ambition by Daniel Pipes.  
    http://www.danielpipes.org/books/greater.php
    
    Extractions: Paperback edition: Oxford University Press, 1992 While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected. This is Pan-Syrian nationalism -the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied in depth, Pan-Syrianism has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end of World War I. In Greater Syria , the noted Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology. Read a chapter from Greater Syria Buy this book at Amazon.com ... BarnesAndNoble.com "A superior book"

94. Syria
    Comprehensive information about syria, including the economy, history, geography, history A concise history of syria. News Daily English newspaper.  
    http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/syria.htm
    
    Extractions: General Information Capital: Damascus Population: 15,725,000 Land Area: 184,180 sqkm Per Capita GNP: $970 Under 5 Mortality Rate: 30 Adult Literacy: 91(M); 73(F) Fertility Rate: 3.8 Life Expectancy: 70(M); 73(F) Urbanization Rate: 55% Unemployment Rate: 20% (2000) Major Language: Arabic Major Religion: Islam Government Type: Republic (under control by military now) * Data are from UNSD, UNICEF and CIA World Factbook Internet Resource Ministry of Information Embassy of the Republic of Syria in Washington D.C. A Country Study

95. Gorgias Press - Hitti, Philip K. History Of Syria, Including
    Hitti, Philip K. history of syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine.  
    http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/pc-296-16-hitti-philip-k-history-of-syria-i
    
    Extractions: Author: Philip K Hitti Title: History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine Subtitle: Series: Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC Publication Date: 9/24/2002 4:27:59 PM 1951 Availability: In Print ISBN: Format: Hardback 6 x 9, 1 volume(s), xxv+749 pages, 120 illustrations Philip K. Hitti is one of the world's leading Arabic scholars and authorities on the Near East. His History of the Arabs was acclaimed by Samuel Chew in the New York Herald Tribune as "enthrallingly interesting work..." Now Dr. Hitti has written a brilliant history of the land into which more historical and cultural events, colorful and dynamic, were croweded than perhaps into any area of equal size. For Syria, which first saw the dawn of continuous history, has either invented or transmitted to mankind such benefits as monotheistic religion, philosophy, law, trade, agriculture, and our allphabet.

96. Syria A Terrorist Nation – Part II
    syria s history as a Terrorist Nation. syria, like Iraq, was ruled by a Ba athist minority. The Assads were from the Alawite sect, a Muslim minority,  
    http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/9/122336.shtml
    
    Extractions: Saturday, May 10, 2003 Editor's Note – This is the second part of a two-part article. Read Part I Syria's History as a Terrorist Nation Syria, like Iraq, was ruled by a Ba'athist minority. The Assads were from the Alawite sect, a Muslim minority, while the majority of Syrians are Sunni Muslims. Former President Hafez al Assad and his generals ruled Syria with brutal repression. Assad, knowing he would soon be dead from cancer, had planned for his first son to take the reins of power, but after his son's assassination, Assad had to switch the line of succession to Bashar, the weaker son and an unlikely leader. Assad instructed his generals to keep Bashar as a figurehead but to run the country in the same brutal fashion from behind the throne. Even if Assad had not given these instructions, the generals had to maintain their grip lest the Sunni majority rise up and kill them all. (Note! The same thing is happening in Iraq as the Shi'ite majority is fast finding its strength, no doubt urged on by Iran, and will take or already has begun to take revenge against Saddam's brutal dictatorship.)

97. Juan Cole * Informed Comment *
    history, Middle East, South Asia, Religious Studies, War on Terror. In the meantime, syria gradually had gained a new client in Lebanon, the Shiites,  
    http://www.juancole.com/2005/03/lebanon-realignment-and-syria-it-is.html
    
    Extractions: What is now Lebanon consists of relatively hilly territory along the eastern Mediterranean coast. The mountains allowed small and often heterodox religious groups to survive, since the mountain inhabitants were relatively isolated and central governments had a difficult time getting hold of them. On the broad plains of Syria, governments could encourage conversion to Islam, then to Shiism, then to Sunnism, and most of the population went along. In the mountains near the coast, the population stuck to its guns. Thus, the Maronite Christians resisted conversion to Islam, as did many Eastern Orthodox Christains. The success the Ismaili government of medieval Egypt had in converting Muslims to Shiite Islam was long-lived, though most of these Shiites went over to the rival "Twelver" branch of Shiism that is now practiced in Iraq and Iran. Likewise, Egyptian Ismailism spun off an esoteric sect

98. Leanne Piggott Argues That Without Lebanon, The Syrian Economy May Implode. - On
    syria A Soviet relic collides with history To this day, the Ba’ath Party regime in syria largely operates according to the old Soviet model politically  
    http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3273

99. Syria (Syrian) Genealogy: Resources For Family History Research
    syria (syrian) Genealogy history Culture. Miscellaneous Resources. 007 Web Directory Genealogy NedGen.com; Adoption Resources  
    http://www.kindredtrails.com/syria.html

100. GlobalEDGE (TM) | Country Insights - History Of Syria
     globalEDGE Country Insights Profile of syria from an international business perspective. Information on the overview of the country, its history, economy,  
     http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/CountryHistoryPrint.asp?CountryID=173&RegionID=3

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