I have to be honest, I think I have only ever heard of Syria in terms of being at war and I think with what is going on at the moment, many people go back to thinking of what happened there and is still going on.

- Syria borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the North, Iraq to the east and the southeast, Jordan to the south and Isreal and Lebanon to the southwest
- The capital of Syria is Damasucs, it is the oldest continuously lived in city
- As you can imagine, they have a lot of oldest records, one of those is the oldest libray, the ancient city of Ebla was discovered in 1974, around 1800 clay tablets were found dating from 3000BC
- A civil conflict has been going on since 2011 at least 400,000 people have lost their lives and its estimated to have displaced 10 million refugees
- Because of this, families have been seperated, there is a place called shouting hill where the village of Ein al-Teinia is isolated from the town Majdal al-Shams, families use to use loudhailers to communicate to each other over the landmined and fenced off gap
- Because of the war many places have been destroyed, this includes the ancient Roman city of Palmyra
- There is a female only village called Jinwar (woman’s land) it welcomes women from all walks of life
- Some of Syria’s roads are over 4,000 years old and still in use
- Maaloula, Syria is one of only 3 places that still speaks Western Aramaic, which is the language Jesus is thought to have spoken, the other 2 places are vilages close by
- The music in Syria is poetry based, I hope you enjoy
I learned a lot! This country is not one I knew much about at all!
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brilliant, I triedto find facts that didn’t include the war
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Very interesting
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thank you
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