* 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14, 000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).

* 1988 – Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer

In the 10th century, Middle-Eastern mathematicians extended the decimal numeral system to include fractions, as recorded in a treatise by Syrian mathematician Abu ' l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi in 952 – 953.

Bedr managed to line up three Syrian commanders – Obeid Allah ibn Uthman and Abd Allah ibn Khalid, both originally of Damascus, and Yusuf ibn Bukht of Qinnasrin.

Subsequently, the Druze chiefs of the Gharb placed their considerable military experience at the disposal of the Mamluk rulers of Egypt ( 1250 – 1516 ); first, to assist them in putting an end to what remained of Crusader rule in coastal Syria, and later to help them safeguard the Syrian coast against Crusader retaliation by sea.

From Keban to the Syrian – Turkish border, the river drops another over a distance of less than.

* 1968 – Qasim Melho, Syrian actor

* 1945 – Burhan Ghalioun, Syrian politician

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.

Syrian hamsters dig their burrows generally at a depth of 0. 7 m. A burrow includes a steep entrance pipe ( 4 – 5 cm in diameter ), a nesting and a hoarding chamber and a blind-ending branch for urination.

Both Syrian and Russian hamsters mature quickly and can begin reproducing at a young age ( 4 – 5 wk ), whereas Chinese hamsters will usually begin reproducing at two to three months of age, and Roborovskis at three to four months of age.

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 .?

* 2012 – Marwan Arafat, Syrian footballer and referee ( b. 1945 )

* 218 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus.

* 154 – Bardaisan, Syrian scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher, and poet ( d. 222 )

* 1979 – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist ( d. 2012 )

* 1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer

* 2012 – The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.

* 1985 – Abdulkader Dakka, Syrian footballer

Assad did not provide a timetable for a complete withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon – 14, 000 soldiers and intelligence agents.

Leo III the Isaurian also known as the Syrian ( Greek: Λέων Γ ΄, Leōn III ), ( c. 685 – 18 June 741 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741.

* 2011 – Beginning of the Syrian uprising.

* 1963 – The Ba ' ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d ' état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.

* 1923 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet, and publisher ( d. 1998 )

These dishes are almost always found in Lebanese, Syrian, and Turkish restaurants.

The herb is also widely used in Turkish, Palestinian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Philippine and Latin American cuisines.

Sephardic Jews evolved to form most of North Africa's Jewish communities of the modern era, as well as the bulk of the Turkish, Syrian, Galilean and Jerusalemite Jews of the Ottoman period.

Moreover, the harrowing accounts of the Turkish invasion and conquest of Anatolia recorded by such Eastern Christian chroniclers as John Skylitzes, Michael Attaleiates, Matthew of Edessa, Michael the Syrian and others, which are summarized by Vryonis, seem to contradict Asbridge's broad picture of equanimious " coexistence " between the Christian and Muslim worlds in the second half of the 11th century.

The study examines genetic markers spread across the entire genome and shows that the Jewish groups ( Ashkenazi and non Ashkenazi ) share large swaths of DNA, indicating close relationships and that each of the Jewish groups in the study ( Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Italian, Turkish, Greek and Ashkenazi ) has its own genetic signature but is more closely related to the other Jewish groups than to their fellow non-Jewish countrymen.

On 14 September 1799 Kleber established a mounted company of Mamluk auxiliaries and Syrian Janissaries from Turkish troops captured at the siege of Acre.

The most accepted explanation is that the name for the, then Syrian ( now Turkish ), Hellenistic city of Antioch on the Orontes ( Arabic: Antākiyyah, today Antakya ) was used, as the region known as the Coffee Zone in Colombia, in which many towns and cities are named after cities in the middle east, has a very strong Judeo-Arabic influence, both demographically and culturally ; Additionally the city in mention played a significant role in the development of early Christian communities thus religiously important for Roman Catholic Spaniard conquerors.

Perhaps inspired by the contemporary Turkish War of Independence ( 1919-1921 ), similarly, the Great Revolt for Syrian Independence began in the countryside of Jabal al-Druze, led by Sultan al-Atrash, as a Druze uprising ; the movement was adopted by a group of Syrian nationalists led by Dr Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar and spread to the States of Aleppo, Damascus.

The Turkish, Syrian, and Iraqi scales should remain what they are ..." ( translated in Maalouf 2002, p. 220 ).

* Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria

These dishes are found in Lebanese, Syrian, and Turkish restaurants.

The 1936 elections returned two MPs favoring the independence of Syria from France, and this prompted communal riots as well as passionate articles in the Turkish and Syrian press.

In 1938, the Turkish military went into the Syrian province and expelled most of its Arab and Armenian inhabitants.

Unlike other regions historically belonging to Syrian provinces ( such as Aintab, Kilis and Urfa ), Alexandretta was confirmed as Syrian territory in the Treaty of Lausanne agreed upon by Kemal Atatürk ; although it was granted a special autonomous status because it contained a large Turkish minority.

Indeed, in early 2005, when visits from Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Turkish prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opened a way to discussions between two states, it was claimed that the Syrian government announced it had no claims to sovereignty concerning Hatay any more.

Following changes to Turkish land registry legislation in 2003 a large number of properties in Hatay were purchased by Syrian nationals, mostly people who had been residents of Hatay since the 1930s but had retained their Syrian citizenship and were buying the properties that they already occupied.

Rijssen also has communities of Molukkish, Turkish, Syrian and Moroccan people.

Constructions such as " Egyptian coffee ," " Syrian coffee ," " Lebanese coffee ," and " Iraqi coffee " draw a distinction in the flavor, preparation, or presentation of different kinds of Turkish coffee.

An Italian-American born and raised in Brooklyn, Maneri played clarinet and saxophone in various dance bands and on the Catskill circuit as a teenager, often performing traditional Greek, Turkish, and Syrian music or Klezmer at weddings and other gatherings.