Bilad al-Sham@ar

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cultural region geographical region historical region historical term

Bilad al-Sham is the historical Arabic name for the Levant, a region encompassing modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and parts of surrounding areas in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Bilad al-Sham	11
Bilad al-Sham@ar canonical	1

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region ⓘ geographical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ historical term ⓘ
borderedBy	Anatolia ⓘ Arabian Desert ⓘ Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ
containsHolyCity	Damascus ⓘ Hebron ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Nazareth ⓘ
containsRegion	Bekaa Valley ⓘ Galilee ⓘ Golan Heights ⓘ Hauran ⓘ Jordan Valley ⓘ Mount Lebanon ⓘ Palestine ⓘ
country	Jordan ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Palestine ⓘ Syria ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Arabs ⓘ Arameans ⓘ Assyrians ⓘ Circassians ⓘ Druze ⓘ Kurds ⓘ Turkmens ⓘ surface form: Turkmen
hasCapital	Damascus ⓘ
hasSubregion	Jordan ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Palestine ⓘ Syria ⓘ parts of northern Saudi Arabia ⓘ parts of southern Turkey ⓘ parts of western Iraq ⓘ
historicalNameFor	Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant
historicalPeriod	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ early Islamic period ⓘ
importantFor	Christian history ⓘ Islamic history ⓘ Jewish history ⓘ
knownAs	الشام ⓘ surface form: بلاد الشام Greater Syria ⓘ Syrian region ⓘ surface form: ash-Sham
language	Arabic ⓘ
locatedIn	Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant Middle East ⓘ Middle East ⓘ surface form: Western Asia
majorCity	Aleppo ⓘ Amman ⓘ Beirut ⓘ Damascus ⓘ Hama ⓘ Homs ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Tripoli ⓘ surface form: Tripoli (Lebanon)
meaning	land of Damascus ⓘ land of the north ⓘ
partOf	Arab world ⓘ Greater Syria ⓘ Mashriq ⓘ
predecessorOf	British Mandate for Palestine ⓘ Emirate of Transjordan ⓘ French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon ⓘ surface form: French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
religion	Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
usedInLanguage	Arabic ⓘ
wasProvinceOf	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ