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Classically, this range was known as the Bargylus, [3] [2] a name mentioned by Pliny the Elder. [4] The Greek: Μπάργκυλος, romanized: Bargylus) had its roots in the name of an ancient city-kingdom called Barga most probably located in the vicinity of the mountains; [5] it was a city of the Eblaite Empire in the third millennium BC, [6] and then a vassal kingdom of the Hittites, [7 ...
In the east is the Syrian Desert and in the south is the Jabal al-Druze Range. The former is bisected by the Euphrates valley. A dam built in 1973 on the Euphrates created a reservoir named Lake Assad, the largest lake in Syria. The highest point in Syria is Mount Hermon on the Lebanese border at 2,814 metres or 9,232 feet. Between the humid ...
A satellite image of Arwad. There are exactly five ocean islands belonging to Syria.They are all close to the Mediterranean Sea coast in the region of Tartus: [1]. Jazirat Basirah: about 4,500 m 2, it is located 770 metres from Syria beach.
A satellite image of Arwad, with Tartus on the Syrian coast to the east. Arwad (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓𐤅𐤃, romanized: ʾrwd; Arabic: أرواد, romanized: ʾArwād), the classical Aradus, is a town in Syria on an eponymous island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Tartus (Arabic: طَرْطُوس / ALA-LC: Ṭarṭūs; known in the County of Tripoli as Tortosa and also transliterated from French Tartous) is a major port city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. [4] It is the second largest port city in Syria (after Latakia), and the largest city in Tartus Governorate. [5]
User:Lothar von Richthofen/Template:Syrian civil war detailed map (Coast) User:Lothar von Richthofen/Template:Syrian civil war detailed map (Damascus) User:Lothar von Richthofen/Template:Syrian civil war detailed map (South) Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Image workshop/Archive/Jan 2009; Module talk:Location map/data/Syria
Syria is the twelfth most water-stressed country in the world. Syria's climate varies from the humid Mediterranean coast, through a semi-arid steppe zone, to arid desert in the east. The country consists mostly of arid plateau, although the northwest part bordering the Mediterranean is fairly green.
Syria, [a] also known as Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine, [2] is a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant. [3] The region boundaries have changed throughout history. However, in modern times, the term "Syria" alone is used to refer to the Syrian Arab Republic.