Though Nestorius had been condemned by the church, including by Syrians, there remained a faction loyal to him and his teachings.

Here he remained four years, " and during that time secured the redress for wrongs done American subjects by the Syrians, and successfully negotiated two treaties, one having reference to the extradition of criminals, and the other to the naturalization of subjects of little power in the dominions of the other.

Eventually the Syrians brought most of the nation under their control, as part of a power-struggle with Israel, which occupied areas of southern Lebanon in 1978.

To retain control of Judea, he makes a bid to gain the loyalty of Jonathan Maccabeus, whom he permits to recruit an army and to take back the hostages that the Syrians are holding in the city of Acre.

The movement holds the largest " number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umbrella and " control " the relief committee, which distributes aid and money to Syrians participating in the revolt.

When Hazael and his Syrians took from Israel the territory across the Jordan, Aroer is given as its southern limit ( II Kings x.

The army units were generally separated along ethnic lines, thus the Berbers were usually the light cavalry / foot skirmishers, while the Turks would be the horse archers or heavy cavalry ( known as Mamluks ), and the black Africans, Syrians, and Arabs generally acted as the heavy infantry and foot archers.

When the Roman senate heard that the Syrian kingdom kept more warships and elephants than allowed by the peace treaty of Apamea made in 188 BC, they sent a Roman embassy to travel along the cities of Syria and attempted to cripple Seleucid military power by sinking the Syrians ' warships and hamstringing their elephants.

The site is disputed ; the common opinion in the early 20th century was that the town lay east of the Jordan and that the name is preserved in the modern Fek, three miles east of the Sea of Galilee, on the edge of the plain of Jordan by the Golan Heights ; later opinion, however, has focused on regarding this Aphek as the same as the scene of two battles against the Philistines mentioned by the Bible-the supposition being that the Syrians were invading Israel from the western side as being the most vulnerable.

The chronicle literature is originally foreign to Greek civilization, the first of which was composed by uneducated Syrians.

At first relations between the Seleucids and the Jews were cordial, but the attempt of Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( 174 – 163 ) to impose Hellenic culture sparked a national rebellion, which ended in the expulsion of the Syrians and the establishment of an independent Jewish kingdom under the Hasmonean dynasty.

At the time, there were a number of Jewish enclaves in Jerusalem, for Yemenites, Hassids, Syrians and other Jewish ethnic groups.

Since the commission had a very " maximalist " view of Syriawhat would today encompass Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and the Gaza Stripit pointed out that a majority of Syrians were against the formation of a Jewish state.

Metullah is a summer station for the hardy men and women of the colonies ; it lies too far from the high road to attract the tourist, but in course of time it, or some other place in the highland region, will become for the Jewish dwellers of the lowlands what a number of hill stations in the Lebanon are already to the Syrians of the plains.

Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs.

* Arabs ( i. e. Palestinians, followed by Moroccans, Syrians, Lebanese, Yemenis, Egyptians, Iraqis and Jordanians )

And thousands who are Middle Easterner descendants: Arabs, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, Europeans, Armenians, Italians, Greeks and Turks came to Guatemala after World War I.

There are also Europeans, Indians, Lebanese, Syrians, Chinese, and Carib Amerindians ( remnants of the original pre-European population ).

At the end of November, tenuous local ceasefires were arranged between the Israelis, Syrians and Lebanese.

Outnumbered ( 5, 000 Lebanese soldiers against 12, 000 Syrians ), Fakher el-Din was nevertheless victorious and was able to capture the Pasha of Damascus for himself.

Also important was the immigration of Arabs and Asians: in particular Chinese, Lebanese, Palestinians, South Asians ( from India and Pakistan ) and Syrians.

Modern DNA evidence has provided evidence that most of the world's Jews, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, have a common ancestral lineage in the Levant, which can be traced to a common ancestral population that inhabited the Middle East some four thousand years ago.

Also are the Middle Eastern peoples such as Lebanese, Syrians and a fairly large to its size a Palestinian community in the town of La Calera.

Since the late 19th century, Grafton Hill and Vernon Hill have been points of entry for immigrants from all over the world: Irish, Italians, Lithuanians, Poles, Syrians, Lebanese, Indians, Puerto Ricans, French Canadians, and more recently, Albanians and Brazilians.

But Israel's main partner was to be the Maronite Phalange party, whose paramilitary was led by Bashir Gemayel, a rising figure in Lebanese politics Gemayel's strategy during the early stages of the Lebanese Civil War was to provoke the Syrians into retaliatory attacks on Christians, such that Israel could not ignore.

This influx resulted in much native resentment towards Syrians and Lebanese in Iraq.

Its ranks included mainly Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinian Arabs and Druzes and a few hundreds of Iraqis, Transjordanians, Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Circassians.

Other groups in the country include the descendants of Southwest Asians — mostly Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians.

By present-day definitions some of these villagers would be defined as Syrians, some as Lebanese and some as Palestinians.

This diversity reflects the country's mix of native Amerindians, Portuguese, Africans, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Syrians, Lebanese and Japanese among others.

However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the arrival of Italian, Spanish and Arab immigrants, particularly Syrians and Lebanese, revived trade and agriculture all over the area while further enhancing the city's multicultural flavor.

" Negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia, it was designed to end the decades-long Lebanese civil war, politically accommodate the demographic shift to a Muslim majority, reassert Lebanese authority in South Lebanon ( then occupied by Israel ), though the agreement set a time frame for Syrian withdrawal and stipulated that the Syrians withdraw in two years.

1989 saw the Guardians once more fighting the Syrians alongside the Lebanese Army in support of the Lebanese government of General Michel Aoun.

Over time, Windsor Terrace has become increasingly diverse, including Greek and Hispanic people, in addition to a small minority of Syrians, Maronite Lebanese and Jewish-Americans.

Lebanese Forces ‘ Commando ’ troops under the command of Bashir Gemayel and the Tigers Militia led by Dany Chamoun were drawn into the action against the Syrians.

The outbreak of hostilities changed this, as Lebanon was to feel the weight of the conflict in the Middle East more heavily than most other areas occupied by the Syrians.

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

But at present Saint John is celebrated on a wide variety of dates in Eastern rites: 29 December for Armenians, 30 December for Copts, 7 May for Syrians and 26 September for Christians of Byzantine Rite.

Greeks, Syrians, and Jews continued to live as they had before, subject to their own laws and courts, with their former Muslim overlords simply replaced by the crusaders ; Muslims now joined them at the lowest level of society.

On 12 March 2004, beginning at a stadium in Qamishli ( a city in northeastern Syria where many Kurds live ), clashes between Kurds and Syrians broke out and continued over a number of days.

Tackling corruption is a popular cause among most Syrians, who see the immense wealth created at their expense as a reason why the Syrian economy has struggled to grow.

The headquarters of their ' Arab Deterrent Force ' was at the Bekaa market town of Chtaura and their troops were billetted all the way up the valley, around the Greek Orthodox town of Zahle-where Cody and I had seen the Syrians and Phalangists cooperating in 1976-at the airbase at Rayak, in Baalbek and Hermel.

In an attempt at appeasing the Syrians, de Gaulle promised independence and visited Syria to elicit support for France.

So he convened a Synod at Mavelikkara in 1836, in which the Synod declared that, “ We, the Jacobite Syrians are under the rule of the Patriarch of Antioch .” But it is historically untenable to assert that the Malankara Church had always been under the Patriarch of Antioch.

He advocated pro-British and pro-American views at a time when the majority of Syrians had become pro-Soviet Union.

Douglas Jehl of the " New York Times " reported that Charles A. Duelfer, chief weapons inspector in Iraq, reported that as recently as three months before the March 2003 invasion, " a branch of the Iraqi Intelligence Service known as M14, the directorate for special operations, oversaw a highly secretive enterprise known as the Challenge Project, involving explosives ... trained Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Yemeni, Lebanese, Egyptian and Sudanese operatives in counterterrorism, explosives, marksmanship and foreign operations at its facilities at Salman Pak, near Baghdad.

However, Syrian defense minister General Yusuf al-Azmah, who was 36 years old at the time, insisted that Syrians could not allow the French to enter unopposed.

However, a coalition of Phoenicians and Syrians with Israel was waiting for Shalmaneser when he advanced south, leading to a second battle at Qarqar itself.

According to some scholars, Matthew was intolerant towards both Greeks and Latins, as well as unsympathetic towards Syrians, judging by allusions made by Abul-Faraj at a later date.