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Northern Syria Northern Syria
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Cyrrhestice and Chalcidice Cyrrhestice and Chalcidice
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Commagene Commagene
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Phoenicia Phoenicia
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Southern Syria Southern Syria
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“Palestine” “Palestine”
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“Coele Syria” “Coele Syria”
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The Red Sea Basin The Red Sea Basin
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Egypt Egypt
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Ptolemaic Colonizing Activity in Egypt Ptolemaic Colonizing Activity in Egypt
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The Toponymy of the Nome Capitals and the Fayum Towns The Toponymy of the Nome Capitals and the Fayum Towns
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Fayum Towns and Royal Founders Fayum Towns and Royal Founders
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Fayum Towns: Josephus and Plutarch on Hellenistic Settlements Fayum Towns: Josephus and Plutarch on Hellenistic Settlements
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The Egyptian Context of the Fayum Settlements The Egyptian Context of the Fayum Settlements
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Hellenistic Settlements in Asia Minor and Syria Hellenistic Settlements in Asia Minor and Syria
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Cyrenaica Cyrenaica
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Extract
Northern Syria
Syria is bounded on the north by Cilicia and Mt. Amanus… . It is bounded on theeast by the Euphrates and by the Arabian Scenitae this side the Euphrates; and on the south by Arabia Felix and Aegypt; and on the west by the Aegyptian and Syrian Seas as far as Issus. We set down as parts of Syria, beginning at Cilicia and Mt. Amanus, both Commagene and the Seleucis of Syria … then Coele-Syria and last, on the seaboard, Phoenicia, and in the interior, Judaea. Some writers divide Syria as a whole into Coelo-Syrians and Syrians and Phoenicians.
strabo 16.2.1–2 (trans. jones)
Syria consists of a long narrow strip of fertile land, stretching from the Taurus down to the confines of Egypt, and bounded by the Mediterranean on the west and the Arabian desert on the east. This strip is divided in a number of parallel zones. Next the sea is a coastal plain, as a rule very narrow, but widening out in Palestine. Behind this are two parallel mountain ranges, separated by a cleft along which two principal rivers run from a central watershed, the Jordan southwards into the Dead Sea, the Orontes northwards till it breaks through the western chain into the Mediterranean. These two mountain ranges attain their greatest height at their centres, where they form the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon. To the north and south of these summits they sink and spread out into broad areas of highland. Thus the Bargylus and Amanus ranges, and the mountains of Galilee and Judaea form the northern and southern extensions of the Lebanon. The whole forms a well-defined chain but is broken by several gaps, that between the Amanus and the Bargylus through which the Orontes makes its way to the sea, that between the Bargylus and the Lebanon cut by the Eleutherus river, and, the most important of them all, the plain of Esdraelon between the Galilean and Judean highlands… . Beyond the mountains comes the desert, bounding Syria on the east from the Euphrates to the Red Sea, and sweeping round in the south to the shore of the Mediterranean.
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