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Syria - Wikipedia. Coordinates: 3. 5. The western two- thirds of Syria. Syria's capital and largest city is Damascus. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including Syrian Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians,Mandeans.

Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, Yazidis, and Jews. Sunni Arabs make up the largest religious group in Syria. In English, the name . Its capital Damascus and largest city Aleppo are among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It gained independence as a parliamentary republic on 2. October 1. 94. 5 when Syria became a founding member of the United Nations, an act which legally ended the former French Mandate – although French troops did not leave the country until April 1. The post- independence period was tumultuous, and a large number of military coups and coup attempts shook the country in the period 1.

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In 1. 95. 8, Syria entered a brief union with Egypt called the United Arab Republic, which was terminated by the 1. Syrian coup d'. The Arab Republic of Syria came into being in late 1. December 1 constitutional referendum, and was increasingly unstable until the Ba'athist coup d'.

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Syria was under Emergency Law from 1. Bashar al- Assad has been president since 2.

Hafez al- Assad, who was in office from 1. It is a member of one international organization other than the United Nations, the Non- Aligned Movement; it has become suspended from the Arab League on November 2. As a result, a number of self- proclaimed political entities have since emerged on Syria. Syria is the world's most violent country according to the Global Peace Index and is ranked last in the Global Peace Index. The war caused 4. February 2. 01. 6 SCPR estimate).

Classically, Syria lies at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, between Arabia to the south and Asia Minor to the north, stretching inland to include parts of Iraq, and having an uncertain border to the northeast that Pliny the Elder describes as including, from west to east, Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene. The following Neolithic period (PPNB) is represented by rectangular houses of Mureybet culture. At the time of the pre- pottery Neolithic, people used vessels made of stone, gyps and burnt lime (Vaisselle blanche). Finds of obsidian tools from Anatolia are evidences of early trade relations.

Cities of Hamoukar and Emar played an important role during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in Syria was one of the most ancient on earth, perhaps preceded by only those of Mesopotamia. Eblaites and Amorites. Ebla royal palace c. BCThe earliest recorded indigenous civilisation in the region was the Kingdom of Ebla. Ebla appears to have been founded around 3.

BC. The Northwest Semitic language of the Amorites is the earliest attested of the Canaanite languages. Mari reemerged during this period, and saw renewed prosperity until conquered by Hammurabi of Babylon. Ugarit also arose during this time, circa 1. BC, close to modern Latakia. Ugaritic was a Semitic language loosely related to the Canaanite languages, and developed the Ugaritic alphabet.

Yamhad was described in the tablets of Mari as the mightiest state in the near east and as having more vassals than Hammurabi of Babylon. The Egyptians initially occupied much of the south, while the Hittites, and the Mitanni, much of the north.

However, Assyria eventually gained the upper hand, destroying the Mitanni Empire and annexing huge swathes of territory previously held by the Hittites and Babylon. Arameans and Phoenicians. Around the 1. 4th century BC, various Semitic peoples appeared in the area, such as the semi- nomadic Suteans who came into an unsuccessful conflict with Babylonia to the east, and the West Semitic speaking Arameans who subsumed the earlier Amorites. They too were subjugated by Assyria and the Hittites for centuries. The Egyptians fought the Hittites for control over western Syria; the fighting reached its zenith in 1. BC with the Battle of Kadesh.

From this point, the region became known as Aramea or Aram. There was also a synthesis between the Semitic Arameans and the remnants of the Indo- European Hittites, with the founding of a number of Syro- Hittite states centered in north central Aram (Syria) and south central Asia Minor (modern Turkey), including Palistin, Carchemish and Sam'al. A Canaanite group known as the Phoenicians came to dominate the coasts of Syria, (and also Lebanon and northern Palestine) from the 1.

BC, founding city states such as Amrit, Simyra, Arwad, Paltos, Ramitha and Shuksi. From these coastal regions they eventually spread their influence throughout the Mediterranean, including building colonies in Malta, Sicily, the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), the coasts of North Africa, and most significantly, founding the major city state of Carthage (in modern Tunisia) in the 9th century BC which was much later to become the center of a major empire, rivaling the Roman Empire.

Syria and the entire Near East and beyond then fell to the vast Neo Assyrian Empire (9. BC – 6. 05 BC). The Assyrians introduced Imperial Aramaic as the lingua franca of their empire. This language was to remain dominant in Syria and the entire Near East until after the Arab. Islamic conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries AD, and was to be a vehicle for the spread of Christianity. The Assyrians named their colonies of Syria and Lebanon Eber- Nari. Assyrian domination ended after the Assyrians greatly weakened themselves in a series of brutal internal civil wars, followed by an attacking coalition of their former subject peoples; the Medes, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians.

During the fall of Assyria, the Scythians ravaged and plundered much of Syria. The last stand of the Assyrian army was at Carchemish in northern Syria in 6. BC. The Assyrian Empire was followed by the Neo- Babylonian Empire (6. BC – 5. 39 BC). During this period, Syria became a battle ground between Babylonia and another former Assyrian colony, that of Egypt. The Babylonians, like their Assyrian relations, were victorious over Egypt. Classical antiquity.

The Achaemenid. Persians took Syria from Babylonia as part of their hegemony of Southwest Asia in 5. BC. The Persians, having spent four centuries under Assyrian rule, retained Imperial Aramaic as diplomatic language in the Achaemenid Empire (5. BC- 3. 30 BC), and also the Assyrian name of the satrapy of Aram/Syria Eber- Nari.

Syria was conquered by the Greek. Macedonian Empire, ruled by Alexander the Great circa 3. BC, and consequently became Coele- Syria province of the Greek. Seleucid Empire (3. BC – 6. 4 BC). It was the Greeks who introduced the name . Originally an Indo- European corruption of .

Eventually parts of southern Seleucid Syria were taken by Judean. Hasmoneans upon the slow disintegration of the Hellenistic Empire.

Syria briefly came under Armenian control from 8. BC, with the conquests of Tigranes the Great, who was welcomed as a savior from the Seleucids and Romans by its people. The Armenians retained control of Syria for two decades before being driven out by the Romans. Pompey the Great of the Roman Empire captured Antioch in 6. BC, turning Syria into a Roman province. Eventually, in the late 3rd century AD, the Palmyrene king Odaenathus defeated the Persian emperor Shapur I and controlled the entirety of the Roman East while his successor and widow Zenobia established the Palmyrene Empire, which briefly conquered Egypt, Syria, Palestine, much of Asia Minor, Judah and Lebanon, before being finally brought under Roman control in 2.

AD. The northern Mesopotamian Assyrian kingdom of Adiabene controlled areas of north east Syria between 1. AD and 1. 17 AD, before it was conquered by Rome.