Syria gained proper independence and became a proper republic on April 17, 1946.
Syria is a single party Presidential Republic.
Syria is a republic under an authoritarian military-dominated regime.
Syria is not a democracy, but a republic (one-party presidential republican dictatorship, actually)
The Syrian Arab Republic.
Syria is about the size of North Dakota. Not a country but it helps to put things in perspective.
Egypt.
United Arab Republic
The United Arab Republic consisted mostly of Egypt and Syria.
It was the republic that unified Egypt and Syria as one country which was created in 1958. In 1961 Syria broke away of the UAR but Egypt alone was still called the United Arab Republic until 1971 after Nasser's death.
Syria (officially the Syrian Arab Republic) covers an area of 71,479 square miles.
Pompey the Great sent two of his lieutenants to seize Damascus is 65 BC. He went to Syria himself and annexed it in 63 BC, towards the end of the Third Mithridatic War against Pontus and Armenia. He did do because of the decay of the ruling dynasty (the Seleucids) and the continuous civil wars in Syria, which had become a failed state.
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