Syria (disambiguation)

Syria is a country in the Middle East, incorporating north-eastern Levant and Eastern Mesopotamia.

Geography and history

The Region of Syria refers to wider historical geographic region. In this sense it can refer to:

• Syro-Hittite states, during the Early Iron Age
• Assyria
• Coele-Syria, a province of the Seleucid Empire
• Roman Syria, a Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE
• Syria Palaestina, a Roman province between 135 CE and 390
• Coele-Syria, a coastal Levantine province split from Syria Palaestina in the late 2nd century CE
• Syria Prima and Syria Secunda, provinces of the Byzantine Empire, transformed from former Roman Syria
• Bilad al-Sham, a province of the early Caliphates, corresponding to former Roman Syria
• Syria Vilayet (Ottoman Syria, a province of the Ottoman Empire, after the Tanzimat reforms, preceded by the Damascus Eyalet
• Arab Kingdom of Syria, a short-living Hashemite kingdom in 1920, installed after WWI and abolished by the French
• French Mandate for Syria, incorporating the State of Syria (1924–30) and later the Syrian Republic (1930–58), which gained full independence in 1946
• Syrian Arab Republic, a modern-day country

Incorporation of the geographic term Syria outside of the Middle East:

• Little Syria, Manhattan, a neighborhood that existed in New York City
• Syria, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Syria, Virginia, a town in the United States
• Șiria, a commune in Arad County, Romania
• Syria Planum, a plateau in the Tharsis region of Mars

Politics

• Greater Syria, an Arab nationalistic term to define large parts of the Middle East, at the greatest extent of Bilad a-Sham province

Other

Syria may also refer to:

• Syria, the pseudonym of Cecilia Cipressi, an Italian singer-songwriter
• Siria, a music duo
• Syria (ship), sailing ship launched in 1868
• Syria TV, national television channel of Syria

Suryani may also refer to:

• Syriac language

See also

• Name of Syria
• Syriac (disambiguation)
• Syrian (disambiguation)