World History
History of Syria. This is a short history of the Middle Eastern nation of Syria. It covers ancient times to the present with an emphasis on the 20th Century.
Syria has been in the news a lot lately. Do you believe Syria's interior minister Ghazi Kenaan committted suicide last week? Or could it be that he was murdered so that he could then be blamed for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri? I am not normally a big conspiracy believer but this suicide just does not sound right...
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Archaeologists have demonstrated that Syria was the center of one of the most ancient civilizations on earth. Around the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, discovered in 1975, a great Semitic empire spread from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia from 2500 to 2400 B.C. The city of Ebla alone during that time had a population estimated at 260,000. Scholars believe the language of Ebla to be the oldest Semitic language.
Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, and, in part, Crusaders before finally coming under the control of the Ottoman Turks. Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
Damascus, settled about 2500 B.C., is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It came under Muslim rule in A.D. 636. Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak, and it became the capital of the Omayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to India from A.D. 661 to A.D. 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad, Iraq.
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World History
History of Syria
History of Syria. This is a short history of the Middle Eastern nation of Syria. It covers ancient times to the present with an emphasis on the 20th Century.
Syria has been in the news a lot lately. Do you believe Syria's interior minister Ghazi Kenaan committted suicide last week? Or could it be that he was murdered so that he could then be blamed for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri? I am not normally a big conspiracy believer but this suicide just does not sound right...
From the site:
Archaeologists have demonstrated that Syria was the center of one of the most ancient civilizations on earth. Around the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, discovered in 1975, a great Semitic empire spread from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia from 2500 to 2400 B.C. The city of Ebla alone during that time had a population estimated at 260,000. Scholars believe the language of Ebla to be the oldest Semitic language.
Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, and, in part, Crusaders before finally coming under the control of the Ottoman Turks. Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
Damascus, settled about 2500 B.C., is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It came under Muslim rule in A.D. 636. Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak, and it became the capital of the Omayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to India from A.D. 661 to A.D. 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad, Iraq.
- Who Were The Hittites?
Who Were the Hittites? This is an essay on the origins and history of the Hittite people with an emphasis on their conflicts with the ancient Egyptians. It was written by Tracy Fox. The World Book Encyclopedia notes, "Hittites, were the earliest inhabitants...
- History Of Turkmenistan
History of Turkmenistan. This is a decent short essay on the history of the Asian nation of Turkmenistan. Wikipedia notes that, "Turkmenistan, formerly known as the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic is a country in Central Asia. It has borders with Afghanistan,...
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History of Armenia This is a good essay which covers the history of Armenia. From the site: Armenia first emerged into history around 800 BC as part of the Kingdom of Urartu or Van, which flourished in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor until 600...
- The Middle East: A Legacy Of Wwi
Here are a couple great stories about the origins of the conflict in the Middle East that you might want to book mark for next year when we cover World War I. In the first essay, The Middle East That France and Britain Drew Is Finally Unravelling, John...
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