Portal:Syria/Topics

• Stone age : Kebaran · Natufian culture ·
  Halafian culture · Jericho .
• Ancient Times : Sumerians · Ebla · Akkadian Empire · Canaan · Phoenicians
  Amorites · Aramaeans · Edomites · Hittites · Nabataeans · Philistines ·Israel and Judah Assyrian Empire · Babylonian Empire
  

• Ugarit
• Phoenician alphabet
• Mesopotamia
• Ebla
• Posidonius of Apamea
• Hellenistic and Roman thought and culture
• Cicero
• Livy and Plutarch
• greater Syria

Persian Empire · Seleucid Empire · Hasmonean kingdom
Roman Empire · Byzantine Empire

• Islamic Period : Ummayad · Abassid
  Seljuk · Fatimid
  Crusades · Ayyubid · Mamluks

• Damascus citadel

Geography , Culture , and People

• Geography of Syria
  • Euphrates river
  • Mediterranean
• Politics of Syria
• Human rights in Syria
• Economy of Syria
• Demographics of Syria
• Semitic Levantine people
• Culture of Syria
• Religions of Syria
  • Judaism in Syria
  • Christianity in Syria
  • Islam in Syria

Syria People

Writers , Poets , Novelists

• Adonis, Haidar Haidar, Ghada al-Samman, Nizar Qabbani and Zakariyya Tamer.

Historians

• Mohammad Kurd Ali

Directors

• Mustafa Akkad , Omar Amirali, Usama Muhammad, and Abd al-Latif Abd al-Hamid.

syrian Kitchen

yabra' , falafel , Kebeh , Maqlobah , Cheese sweet , Taboleh

Music of Syria

Old musicians :Omar al-Batsh , Muhammad Abdelkarim

Calssical singers : Sabah Fakhri , Myada al-Hinawi , Classical-modern : George Wasoof

• Sykes-Picot Agreement
• French mandate
• Hussein bin Ali
• Yusuf al-Azmeh and Battle of Maysalun
• Franco-Turkish agreement of Ankara and Sanjak Iskenderoun {state of Alexandretta}
• Syrian revolution
  • Sultan Pasha al-Atrash
  • Ibrahim Hanano
  • Saleh al-Ali
  • Ramadan Shlash
• National Bloc
• Hashim al-Atassi
• Shukri al-Quwatli
• Rida al-Rikabi
• Saadalla al-Jabiri
• Riad al-Sulh
• Syrian Parties :
  • National Bloc (Syria)
    • Shukri al-Quwatli
    • Saadalla al-Jabiri
    • Jamil Mardam Bey
  • Syrian National Party
  • People’s Party
    • Rushdi Kekhia
    • Nazim al-Kudsi
  • Baath Party
    • Michel Aflaq
    • Salah al-Din al-Bitar
  • Arab socialist party
    • Akram al-Horani
  • Arab Baath Socialist Party
  • Communist party of Syria and Lebanon
  • Syrian Communist Party

(clockwise from top-left) Yusuf al-Azmah, Sultan al-Atrash, Hashim al-Atassi, Shukri al-Quwatli

• Presidents :

Before Independence

• Mohammad Ali al-Abid (1932) - Prime minister : Haqqi al-Azm
• 1934 : Prime minister Taj al-Din al-Hasani
• Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence
• Prime minister Ata Bay al-Ayyubi
• Hashim al-Atassi President (1936 - 1939)
• 1939 : Head of state Bahij al-Khatib
• 17 January 1943 - Taj al-Din al-Hasani as President
• 1943 : Shukri al-Quwatli as President , The 1943 constitution declared the "Syrian republic" the official name of the country, stated the Parliamentary system, and provided the freedom of religion .
• In 1944, French and Syrian leaders signed an independence treaty
• the last leaving of French troops happened in April 15, 1946. Independence was declared on April 17.
• Minister of defence Ahmad Sharabati (1948)

	Image:Nazim al Kudsi.jpg

(clockwise from top-left) Gamal Abdel Nasser , Nazim al-Kudsi, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar_al-Assad

After Independence

• Arab Liberation Army
• Husni al-Zaim on March 30, 1949 - Muhsin al-Barazi Prime-minister
• Sami al-Hinnawi on August 14, 1949
• Adib al-Shishakli on December 1949 - Arab Liberation Movement - Fawzi Selu- Maaruf al-Dawalibi
• Shukri al-Quwatli President {1943 - 1949} - (1955 - 1958)
• Prime minister Sabri al-Asali (1955 - 1958)
• Fares al-Khoury : prime minister and head of Parliment
• Gamal Abdel Nasser President of United Arab Republic {1958 - 1961}
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Nazim al-Kudsi President 1961 - 1963
• March 28, 1962 by a military coup, lead also by Karim an-Nahlawi
• military coup occurred in April 2, 1962, lead by Abdul Karim Zahreddin
• Marouf al-Douwalibi Prime minister
• Khalid al-Azm Prime minister
• Baath Party takeover (8 March 1963)
• Luai al-Atassi
• Amin Hafez
• Salah Jadid
• Salah Jadid
• Nureddin al-Atassi
• Hafez al-Assad Minister of defence , President (1971 - 2000)
• Abdul Halim Khaddam vice-president during Hafez al-Assad presidency
• National Progressive Front
• Bashar al-Assad
• Damascus Spring
• Syrian Human Rights Committee

• Relationship with Israel
  • 1948 Arab-Israeli War
  • Arab Liberation Army
  • Yom Kippur War
  • Golan Heights

Syrian Governates : see the number on the Map

1. Damascus
2. Rif Dimashq
3. Quneitra
4. Daraa
5. As Suwaydā'
6. Homs
7. Tartous
8. Latakia
9. Hama
10. Idlib
11. Aleppo
12. Ar Raqqah
13. Deir ez-Zor
14. Al Hasakah