Thursday, September 13, 2012

Sham

officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السوريةAl-Jumhūriyyah Al-‘Arabīyah As-Sūriyyah About this sound Arabic pronunciation), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
In English, the name Syria was formerly synonymous with the Levant, known in Arabic as Sham

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