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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.
Israel recognized the West Bank's administration as being led by the moderate Fatah, who came in second in the election. Hamas, who only succeeded in governing the Gaza Strip, was declared a hostile group. Israel started a blockade around the Gaza Strip, closing border crossings and limiting imports into the strip. Hamas attacked Israel ...
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE.
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Via Maris, or Way of Horus (Middle Egyptian: ḫꜣt Ḥr, lit. 'Khet Her') was an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia – along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Syria.
The map is a combination of a modern map and a biblical map (showing the Twelve Tribes) [51] Pashalic of Acre: 1822: Burckhardt map: Johann Ludwig Burckhardt: Map accompanying Burckhardt's Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, published in 1822, five years after his travels in the region. Syria and the Holy Land 1830: Hall map: Sidney Hall
The Arameans appear to have displaced the earlier Semitic Amorite (Aḫlamū) populations of ancient Syria during the period from 1100 BC to 900 BC, which was a Dark Age for the entire Near East, North Africa, Caucasus, Mediterranean regions, with great upheavals and mass movements of people.