Syria

Syria

Syria ranks 64th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tunisia, Azerbaijan, and Pakistan. Memorable people born in present day Syria include Elagabalus, Hafez al-Assad, and John of Damascus. Memorable people who died in Syria include Saladin, Bartholomew the Apostle, and Al-Farabi. Syria has been the birth place of many politicians and religious figures and the death place of many politicians and religious figures.

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a Western Asian country located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is a unitary republic that consists of 14 governorates (subdivisions), and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. Cyprus lies to the west across the Mediterranean Sea. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the majority Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians, Circassians, Albanians and Greeks. Religious groups include Muslims, Christians, Alawites, Druze, and Yazidis. The capital and largest city of Syria is Damascus. Arabs are the largest ethnic group, and Muslims are the largest religious group. Read more on Wikipedia