To Be or Not to Be...? Someone’s grief, and someone’s drinking party

Traditions of the Kyrgyz people were being formed with the help of economic, trade, domestic and other relations with kindred and other tribes that were closely related to the geography of their ha...

Iran of the 60s: unsuccessful attempt to reform

After the coup of 19 March 1953 in the socio-political history of Iran there were fundamental changes: the powers of parliament were limited and the absolute power of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was...

Topic: Regional rivalry in the Middle East.

In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran are two countries that claim to leadership in the region. With a powerful resources and political potential these countries are the...

Syria

History of Syria
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Syria

Archaeological finds proves that Syria was inhabited deep into the Stone Age.
Ca. 10,000 BCE: Permanent settlements along Euphrates river, the earliest of man.
Ca. 6500 BCE: Ugarit is first settled.
4th millennium BCE: Earliest traces of urban settlement near Damascus.
Ca. 2900: A mercantile centre in eastern Syria emerges, at Mari.
Ca. 2600: A mercantile centre in north-central Syria emerges, at Ebla, becoming a rival of Mari.

Mesopotamians and Hittites
Around 2300: Ebla destroyed by the Akkadian dynasty of Sumer.