Cities of Syria
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The Syrian tourism promotional slogan says, "every cultured man has two homelands : The first is his
country of birth ; the second is Syria." This is hardly surprising,
but indeed it is a little known fact that the ancient Syrians invented
the first alphabets of the world. The cuneiform carvings of Ugarit in
northern Syria were eventually adopted by the coastal Phoenicians and
then by the Greeks, before the Romans spread it to Europe and the world
beyond. The earliest organised settlements in the world began in
Syria. Northern Syria was part of the Mesopotamian civilisation and as
the ross-roads of Europe, Asia and Africa, this land has always attracted
invaders. The Egyptians came, nd then came the Greeks, the Romans, the
Byzantines, the Islamic Army, the Turks, and the French. Civilisations
came and went, leaving only ruins of their ancient glories. All of Syria
is full of these. After years of struggle, Syria became independent in
1946.
Aleppo
City & Map
Damascus
City & Map
