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The classical Arabic name for Syria is Sham (Arabic_language: الشام‎ ash-Shām), which in later ages came to refer only to Damascusin Levantine_Arabic, while the pre-Islamic name of the territory, Syria, was used again until the collapse of the Ottoman_Empirein 1918.

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