Syrian region

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geographic region historical region

The Syrian region is a historical geographic area in the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing much of modern Syria and surrounding territories, long contested and ruled by various ancient empires.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
Syria (partly)	1
Syrian	1
Syrian territories	1
ash-Sham	1
modern Syria	1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographic region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
borders	Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
containsSubregion	Coele-Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Galilee NERFINISHED ⓘ Golan Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ Hauran NERFINISHED ⓘ Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) NERFINISHED ⓘ Palestine (region) NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenicia NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasHistoricalCapital	Damascus NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasHistoricalName	Aram NERFINISHED ⓘ Bilad al-Sham NERFINISHED ⓘ Eber-Nari NERFINISHED ⓘ Greater Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMajorCity	Aleppo NERFINISHED ⓘ Antioch NERFINISHED ⓘ Beirut NERFINISHED ⓘ Damascus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hama NERFINISHED ⓘ Homs NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Tripoli (Levant) NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSignificantLanguageHistorically	Arabic ⓘ Aramaic ⓘ Canaanite languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Greek ⓘ
hasSignificantReligionHistorically	Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicallyIncludesTerritoryOf	Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ
isImportantFor	Islamic history ⓘ ancient Near Eastern history ⓘ early Christian history ⓘ
locatedIn	Eastern Mediterranean NERFINISHED ⓘ Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Western Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ
traversedBy	Euphrates River NERFINISHED ⓘ Jordan River NERFINISHED ⓘ Orontes River NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasContestedBy	Ayyubid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Crusader states NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasRuledBy	Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Assyrian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Macedonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Mamluk Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Ptolemaic Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Seleucid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Coele-Syria → partOf → Syrian region ⓘ

Iamblichus of Chalcis → ethnicGroup → Syrian region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Syrian

Bilad al-Sham@ar → knownAs → Syrian region ⓘ

subject surface form: Bilad al-Sham

this entity surface form: ash-Sham

Fertile Crescent → presentIn → Syrian region ⓘ

this entity surface form: modern Syria

Sultan of Syria → appliesToJurisdiction → Syrian region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Syrian territories

Ottoman Iraq → locatedInPresentDay → Syrian region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Syria (partly)