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3 days ago · 202 BCE Jan 1 - 195 BCE. Fifth Syrian War. Syria. The death of Ptolemy IV in 204 BCE was followed by a bloody conflict over the regency as his heir, Ptolemy V, was just a child. The conflict began with the murder of the dead king's wife and sister Arsinoë by the ministers Agothocles and Sosibius. The fate of Sosibius is unclear, but Agothocles ...
1 day ago · The Roman general Pompey the Great captured Antioch in 64 BCE, turning Syria into a Roman province and ended Armenian rule, [3] establishing the city of Antioch as its capital. Antioch was the third largest city in the Roman Empire , after Rome and Alexandria , with an estimated population of 500,000 at its zenith, and being a commercial and cultural hub at the region for many centuries later.
1 day ago · Pictures 21 Photos October 15, 2024 6:04 PM UTC In pictures: Lebanese flee Israeli airstrikes to Syria Displaced people in Lebanon cross the border into Syria as they continue to flee Israeli ...
5 days ago · The Syrian oasis city Tadmor, better known as Palmyra, has received by far the most attention within scholarship on the Roman Near East over recent decades.
4 days ago · Zenobia (died after 274) was the queen of the Roman colony of Palmyra, in present-day Syria, from 267 or 268 to 272. She conquered several of Rome’s eastern provinces before she was subjugated by the emperor Aurelian (ruled 270–275). Zenobia’s husband, Odaenathus, Rome’s client ruler of Palmyra, had by 267 recovered the Roman East from ...
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1 day ago · UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein Aleppo suffered catastrophic damage during the four-year siege and battle. According to an Amnesty International report, government forces have been responsible for the majority of violations in the conflict in Syria. Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a statement in ...
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5 days ago · W hen Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed last month, my social-media feeds lit up with images and videos from Syria, my home country. In some areas, including Idlib and the suburbs ...
