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 The actual events of SYRIA can
be summarized from the beginning of agriculture which started about 12000 years
ago, and the first glimmerings of a distinctive "SYRIAN CULTURE" which goes back
to the early bronze age, Sumerians, Akkadians , Phoenicians , Aramaeans,
Egyptians , Hittites , Assyrians, and Persians, all have left steps behind to
record their victories and civilizations. In the wake of Sargon’s campaigns came
the Amorities ,then the Babylon ,Canaanites were another Semitic peoples
associated with SYRIA soon after 2000 BC ,settled on the coastal strip and their
language was probably the first to be written using a system of individual
letters rather than words or syllables (cuneiform scripts). The Aramaic States of
Syria, however, were extinguished by the resurgent new Assyrian Empire after 900
BC. After the collapse of the Persian Empire ,SYRIA had been ruled by Greeks
,Romans ,Byzantines Empires ,then it felt under the ARABS ,SYRIA therefore
became the center of a new world order and the leading torchbearer of
civilization ,with Damascus as its capital under the Umayyad dynasty of caliphs.
Abbasids, Hamadanids and Ottoman, Turkey who also ruled Syria In the modern
period. In the beginning of 20th century and at the end of the first world war
the Ottoman empire had been defeated by the French and British mandates, however
the French entered Syria in 1920 and terminated in 1945 when Syria regained its
political independence and Damascus became the capital of Syrian Arab republic.
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