Syria (disambiguation)

Last updated September 04, 2025

Syria is a country in the West Asia, incorporating the northern Levant.

Geography and history

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

Arab Kingdom of Syria, a short-lived 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
First Syrian Republic, the government of Syria from 1930 to 1950
Second Syrian Republic, the government of Syria from 1950 to 1963
Ba'athist Syria, the government of Syria from 1963 to 2024
Syria, a modern day UN member country
- Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, a self-proclaimed autonomous region in Northern Syria
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham
Turkish occupation of northern Syria
Territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Syro-Hittite states, during the Early Iron Age
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

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

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 East or another name for the Syrian region