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Ancient Syria : a three thousand year history / Trevor Bryce.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199646678
  • 0199646678
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 932-933
LOC classification:
  • DS96.2 .B79 2014
Contents:
The Bronze Ages -- From the Iron Age to the Macedonian Conquest -- Syria under Seleucid rule -- Syria under Roman rule -- The rise and fall of Palmyra.
Summary: Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of the region's earliest written records in the third millennium BC, right through the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century AD.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks DS96.2 .B79 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001341600

Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-367) and index.

The Bronze Ages -- From the Iron Age to the Macedonian Conquest -- Syria under Seleucid rule -- Syria under Roman rule -- The rise and fall of Palmyra.

Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of the region's earliest written records in the third millennium BC, right through the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century AD.

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