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Travel Home > Directory > Destinations > Middle East > Syria
Syria Hotels and Hotel Reservation – Damascus Hotels, Aleppo Hotels, Bosra Hotels, Deir Ez Zor Hotels, Hama Hotels, Latakia Hotels, Palmyra Hotels and Safita Hotela.
Launched in February 2000, Damascus Online aims at introducing different aspects of the Syrian culture and history, and keeping Syrians around the world in touch with their homeland.
Syrian is often described as the largest small country in the world because of its wealth of ancient civilizations. Look at Damascus, the world's oldest inhabited city, contains Greek ruins built over Aramean temples, and minarets rising over Crusader remains. Also, at Aleppo, where a grand fortress rises before you, on the very mount where, in the year 2,000 BC, Abraham is said to have milked his cow.
Syria is a country in Southwest Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. The modern state of Syria was formerly a French mandate and attained independence in 1946, but can trace its roots to the fourth millennium BC; its capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Empire.
Syria is one of the larger states of the Middle East and has its capital in Damascus. Syria is bordered to the north by Turkey, to the east by Iraq, by Jordan and Israel to the south, and by Lebanon to the south-west. In addition, the country has a short coastline on the east Mediterranean Sea.
Syrian Arab News Agency (sana) The goals of the agency were specified as gathering news and distributing it to individuals and media institutions to provide them with objective news services, and to focus on Syria's current affairs regionally and internationally.
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is thought to be among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its current population is estimated at about 4.5 million.[citation needed] The city is a governorate by itself, and the capital of the governorate of Rif Dimashq (Rural Damascus).
Damascus International Airport (IATA: DAM, ICAO: OSDI) is a public airport located in Damascus, the capital of Syria. Officially opened in the mid 1970s, DAM is Syria's busiest international airport. Despite the country's political situation, the airport is experiencing significant annual passenger growth rates.
