Information about Syria

Syria is an ancient tourist country. It is the land of continuous and uninterrupted history. It has known most of the prophets and conquerors. It is the land on which greatest empires accumulated.

This has not effected its inhabitants who were sometimes known as the Amorites and sometimes the Arameans, but were all the time known as Arabs who remained trade mediators all over the world and emissaries combining human education and cooperation.

This land does not only embody human efforts and hopes, including the civilizations above and beneath it but it was a landmark of antiquity throughout all ages. It was also an eternal paradise at all times, and a dream-full desert covered by sand dunes around abandoned cities that have once ruled the Near East region as a whole. It is a land of dense forests that almost prevent sunshine to beam over their feet. IT is also a beautiful coastline that curves along soft-sanded shores, and it is a superior climate that is affected by mountains forests, sea and desert making tourism an enjoyment. It is the first and for all the country of human being who has turned cooper into artistic tools and mud into embroidered containers, whereby changing the shepherd life into a stable agricultural life which witnessed the construction of cities and civilizations. It is the land of the Arabs who introduced the alphabet in the form of languages and simplified writings that have turned to be a political and trade apparatus through the world conveying thoughts from era to era.

The Syrian Arab Republic is located in the western part of Asia overlooking the Mediterranean Basin. It is area is 184,000 square kilometers with 16 million inhabitants. It is surrounded by Turkey form the north, Iraq from the east, Jordan and Palestine from the south and the Mediterranean and Lebanon form the west.

Syria is known for being a land containing many historical ruins. The National Museum in Damascus is famous for the valuable historical belongings. It is similar to an active exhibition showing evidences of human development on the Syrian territories. There, one can find astonishing ruins which stand for Syrian oriental ruins and other ruins belonging to the Greek, Roman and Byzantine eras as well as Arab an Islamic ruins. IT also contains the Damascene hall which is a symbol of beauty. In Damascus also there is the Omayyad Mosque which is viewed as one of the marvelous Arab architecture.  Beside it lies the tomb of Salah Ed-Dim Al-Ayyoubi. In another area in the city lies the Takieyh Suleimanhieh with its wonderful engravings and architecture.