Historical geography of Syria

province in south-central Turkey

an area located east of the Mediterranean sea

thumb|300px|Map of Roman Judea in the first century; according to Claude Reignier Conder|Conder (1889) Iturea or Ituraea (, Itouraía) is the Greek name of a Levantine region north of Galilee during the Late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. It extended from Mount Lebanon across the plain of Marsyas to the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in Syria, with its centre in Chalcis ad Libanum.

300px|thumb|Map of Syria (region) with Cyrrhestica in the north Cyrrhestica () is a district of Greater Syria which appears to have owed its name to the hellenistic era of the country. The readings Κυρριστική and Κυριστική are mistakes made by the scribes. It lies to the east of the plain of Antioch and Amanus, and was bounded on the east by the Euphrates and Commagene to the north, it extended as far as the desert. This fertile, well-watered, and thickly peopled district occupied the right bank of the Euphrates, where the river inclines rather eastward of south. It was the scene of the campai

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Areas between and surrounding the Euphrates and Tigris rivers