10 Facts About Greater Syria

The term Greater Syria itself was applied to several mandate states under French rule and the contemporaneous but short-lived Arab Kingdom of Greater Syria.

In Late Antiquity, "Greater Syria" meant a region located to the East of the Mediterranean Sea, West of the Euphrates River, North of the Arabian Desert and South of the Taurus Mountains, thereby including modern Greater Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine, and parts of Southern Turkey, namely the Hatay Province and the western half of the Southeastern Anatolia Region.

The area of "Greater Syria"; called "Natural Syria" or "Northern Land", extends roughly over the Bilad al-Sham province of the medieval Arab caliphates, encompassing the Eastern Mediterranean (or Levant) and Western Mesopotamia.

Uncertainty in the definition of the extent of "Greater Syria" is aggravated by the etymological confusion of the similar-sounding names Greater Syria and Assyria.

In Late Antiquity, "Greater Syria" meant a region located to the east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Arabian Desert, and south of the Taurus Mountains, thereby including modern Greater Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the State of Palestine, and the Hatay Province and the western half of the Southeastern Anatolia Region of southern Turkey.

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Oldest attestation of the name 'Greater Syria' is from the 8th century BC in a bilingual inscription in Hieroglyphic Luwian and Phoenician.

In 64 BC, Greater Syria became a province of the Roman Empire, following the conquest by Pompey.

Roman Greater Syria bordered Judea to the south, Anatolian Greek domains to the north, Phoenicia to the West, and was in constant struggle with Parthians to the East.

In 135 AD, Greater Syria-Palaestina became to incorporate the entire Levant and Western Mesopotamia.

The kingdom claimed the entire region of Greater Syria whilst exercising control over only the inland region known as OETA East.