Syria (disambiguation)

Syria is a country in the Middle East, incorporating north-eastern Levant and Eastern Mesopotamia. Syria, Siria, and Suryani may also refer to:

Geography and history

Syria (region) refers to wider historical geographic region. In this sense it can refer to:

In modern Middle East

Arab Kingdom of Syria, a short-living Hashemite kingdom in 1920, installed after World War I and abolished by the French
French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, incorporating the:
- State of Syria (1924–30), Mandatory proto-state, a progenitor of Mandatory Syrian Republic
- Syrian Republic (1930–58)
Syrian Republic (1930–58)
- Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic, a modern day UN member country
  - Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, a self-proclaimed autonomous federation in Northern Syria
- Syrian opposition, a pseudo-state of the Syrian opposition as alternative to Ba'athist Syria
- Tahrir al-Sham Emirate
- Syrian areas occupied by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Turkish occupation of northern Syria

Ancient and classic Near East

Syro-Hittite states, during the Early Iron Age
Assyria
Coele-Syria, a province of the Seleucid Empire and the coastal Levantine province of the Roman Empire split from Syria Palaestina in the late 2nd century CE
Roman Syria, a Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE
Syria Palaestina, a Roman province between 135 CE and 390 CE
Byzantine Syria, a sub-region within Byzantine Diocese of the East
- Syria Prima, a province of the Byzantine Empire, transformed from former Roman Syria
- Syria-Coele (Roman province), a province of the Byzantine Empire, transformed from former Roman Syria
Bilad al-Sham, a province of the early Caliphates, corresponding to former Byzantine Syria
Ottoman Syria, a geopolitical region of Levantine provinces of the Ottoman Empire
- Damascus Eyalet until 19th century
- Syria Vilayet after the Tanzimat reforms in 19th century

Incorporation of the geographic term Syria outside of the Middle East

Little Syria, Manhattan, a neighborhood that existed in New York City
Șiria, a commune in Arad County, Romania
Syria, Indiana, an unincorporated community
Syria Planum, a plateau in the Tharsis region of Mars
Syria, Virginia, a town in the United States

Art, entertainment, and media

Syria (journal), an academic journal covering Semitic Middle East history
Siria, a music duo
Syria TV, national television channel of Syria

Other uses

Syria (ship), sailing ship launched in 1868
Syria (singer), the pseudonym of Cecilia Cipressi, an Italian singer-songwriter
Greater Syria, either an Arab nationalistic term to define large parts of the Middle Eastor another name for the Syrian region