Kitab al-I ' tibar (, The Book of Learning by Example ) is the autobiography of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh, an Arab Syrian diplomat and soldier of the 12th century.

Syrian soldier with a PKM machine gun.

* Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj ( born 1925 ), Syrian soldier and politician

Felix was the elder son of Hermias, a Syrian soldier who had retired to Nola, Italy.

In this way the Synod of Dimaper achieved one of the aims of the Portuguese policy in Kerala, to separate the Syrian Christians of Malabar from the Chaldean Patriarch and to extend the influence of Portuguese Padroado in India.

tells how, charging into the mouth of the Syrian assault, he spotted a large elephant bearing the royal seal.

Phillippus Arabs ( Roman Emperor )-detail of Syrian 100 pound note

100 Syrian pound note with Philip the Arab.

It is interesting to note the Syrian Government in September 2003 announced its intention of purchasing six more Airbus planes for the government airline.

The king was well known for his physical prowess and is said to have singlehandedly killed 7 rebel Princes at Kadesh, which successfully terminated his first Syrian campaign on a victorious note.

It is interesting to note that even though bishops from Syrian churches visited Kerala once in a while, they did not attempt to change the Bible into one of the new forms of Syriac.

" Elagabalus " was son of Sextus Varius Marcellus, a Syrian, and Julia Soaemis, daughter of Julia Maesa ( the younger sister of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus ); he was therefore nephew of the late " Caracalla ", whose natural son he claimed to be ( note that he took the same name as Caracalla upon donning the purple ).

The East Syrian liturgical Calendar is unique.

The unique part of the Syrian roundels is the presence of two green stars in the white circle, which is reflective of the two stars on the national flag.

Furthermore, the riots prompted the Arab leadership in Palestine to view themselves less as southern Syrian Arabs and more as a unique Palestinian Arab community.

In 2004 Congress passed the Syrian and Saudi " Accountability Acts " which CNI characterized as “ unique Congressional forays into the executive branch's traditional authority over U. S. foreign affairs .” CNI sponsored a forum featuring CNI and other experts on the subject.

These Syrian Malabar Nasranis kept a unique Christian identity until the arrival of the Portuguese in the 17th century.

St. Paul's Orthodox Church, which has a history of over 150 years, St. John the Baptist CSI Church with its unique architecture ( may be influenced by the leanings of the Orthodox Syrian Christians who joined the newly found CSI Church by the Church Mission Society from Britain, St. Ignatius JSO Church ( Kallooparamb Pally ), and St. Andrew's CSI Church and Valiyaveettil Devi Temple, Pakkil Sasta Temple ( believed to have been consecrated by Parasurama ), Mavilangu Mahalakshmi Temple are the major attractions of Pallam.

On July 16, 1979, Ahmed Hassan al Bakr, who had ruled Iraq following a coup in 1968, stepped down from power and appointed his cousin Saddam Hussein, a strongly anti-Shiite Sunni, to be his successor and the Syrian government officially closed it's embassy in Baghdad soon afterwards.

Approximately 500 Syrian troops, working with the Lebanese Army and police, cleared roadblocks, closed militia offices, and collected weapons.

The Syrian troops, most of whom were veteran commandos, closed down some seventy militia offices, rounded up and arrested militia leaders, confiscated arms caches, deployed troops along the major roads and at Beirut International Airport, established checkpoints, and sent squads on patrol in the streets.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

William of Tyre explains that " after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy.

The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible ( Caphtor ) It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.

And in the 13th century a Syrian historian from Aleppo includes four references for couscous.

File: Frescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery3. jpg | Iconostasis and frescos from the Syrian Monastery, Scetes, Egypt

File: Frescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery1. jpg | Frescos at the Syrian Monastery, Scetes, Egypt

File: Frescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery2. jpg | Frescos at the Syrian Monastery, Scetes, Egypt

A strong force drawn from the Judaean and Syrian legions marched on Rome under the command of Mucianus, while Vespasian himself travelled to Alexandria, leaving Titus in charge of ending the Jewish rebellion.

Under Fakhr-al-Dīn II ( Fakhreddin II ), the Druze dominion increased until it included almost all Syria, extending from the edge of the Antioch plain in the north to Safad in the south, with a part of the Syrian desert dominated by Fakhr-al-Din's castle at Tadmur ( Palmyra ), the ancient capital of Zenobia.

Greek medicine was part of Greek culture, and Syrian Eastern Christians came in contact with it while the Eastern Roman Empire ( Byzantium ) ruled Syria and Western Mesopotamia, regions that were conquered from Byzantium in the 7th century by Arab Muslims.

In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran ( which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran ).

In the 10th century Abd-ar-rahman III – from Hejaz, Arabian peninsula, grandson of the last caliph of Damascus, Syria – declared the Caliphate of Córdoba, effectively breaking all ties with the Egyptian and Syrian caliphs.

The rumour of a falsified document of adoption carried little weight — Hadrian's legitimacy arose from the endorsement of the Senate and the Syrian armies.

The area became a focal point of conflict between Christianity and Islam between 1096 and 1291 and from the end of the Crusades until the British conquest in 1917 was part of the Syrian province of first the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and then ( from 1517 ) the Ottoman Empire.

Beyond the plateau is the Syrian desert, separating the Levant from Mesopotamia.

The name is the Latinized form of the Syrian Ilāh hag-Gabal, which derives from Ilāh (" god ") and gabal (" mountain " ( compare gə < u > b </ u > ul and jabal )), resulting in " the God of the Mountain " the Emesene manifestation of the deity.

Books used by the Hesychast include the Philokalia, a collection of texts on prayer and solitary mental ascesis written from the 4th to the 15th Centuries, this collection existing in a number of independent redactions ; the Ladder of Divine Ascent ; the collected works of St Symeon the New Theologian ( 949 – 1022 ); and the works of St Isaac the Syrian ( 7th C .?– 8th C .?

Seized with a desire for a life of ascetic penance, he went for a time to the desert of Chalcis, to the southwest of Antioch, known as the Syrian Thebaid, from the number of hermits inhabiting it.

This indicated that he had a compound name made up of the actions which he performed ; for the word " Sata " in the Hebrew and Syrian tongue means " apostate ", while " nas " is the word which means in translation " serpent ", thus, from both parts is formed the one word " Sata-nas ".

Saladin soon began to assert his independence from Nur ad-Din, and with the death of both Amalric and Nur ad-Din in 1174, he was well-placed to begin exerting control over Nur ad-Din's Syrian possessions as well.

This led to the Lebanese forces to abstain from the Syrian attack against Aoun.

The Israeli forces finally withdrew from south of Lebanon in May 2000, though the Syrian occupation of most Lebanon still continued.