Syria | Part of the Middle East

ENG: Welcome to my map of Syria/ parts of the Middle East, on this map I tried to make it more or less realistic, but there is a sadness that the mountains and borders are inaccurately drawn, I hope you, the reader, enjoyed my work. RUS: Добро пожаловать на мою карту Сирии/части Ближнего Востока, на этой карте я постарался сделать ее более или менее реалистичной, но есть грусть в том, что горы и границы сделаны неточно, надеюсь, вам, читатель, понравилась моя работа. HISTORY OF SYRIA The history of Syria is the history of the territory where Syria is located. Around 10,000 BC, Syria became one of the centers of the Pre-Ceramic Neolithic, where cattle breeding and agriculture appeared for the first time in the world. In the 3rd millennium BC, there was a Semitic city-state of Ebla in Syria, which was part of the Sumerian-Akkadian civilization. One of the brightest epochs of its early history was the 10th—8th centuries BC, when, after the conquests of kings Rizon I and Tabrimon, the city of Damascus became the center of the powerful Aramaic kingdom, which soon became the hegemon of the whole of Syria. In 739 BC. Assyrian troops managed to take Arpad (Syria). In 738 BC, they also captured 19 more Syrian cities. Under these conditions, the Syrian rulers forgot about their feuds and rallied around the new Damascus king Rizon II. Alexander the Great moved to Syria after the Battle of Issus, instead of pursuing Darius. Parmenion captured the entire baggage train of the Persian army in Damascus, and Alexander himself occupied Phoenicia. Thus, Syria became part of the Macedonian Kingdom in 332 BC. In 635 AD, Syria was devastated and then conquered by the Arabs, after which a significant part of the Aramaic population converted to Islam. In 660-750, when Damascus served as the seat of the caliphs, Syria's prosperity began to rise again, but with the decline of the Damascus caliphate, the country became impoverished. In 1260, the declining Ayyubid state was invaded by the Mong