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Title Syria: A Short History
Author Philip Khuri Hitti
Year 1959
Publisher Macmillan Company
Location New York
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed
OCLC 788791
CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE V
PLACE IN HISTORY 1
THE LAND AND CLIMATE 5
PREHISTORIC ERAS 22
THE ANCIENT SEMITES 31
THE HELLENISTIC AGE 54
ROMANS AND SEMITES 72
BYZANTINES AND ARABS 96
MOSLEM CONQUEST 108
THE GLORY THAT WAS DAMASCUS 119
LIFE UNDER THE UMAYYADS 138
ABBASID PROVINCE 150
PETTY DYNASTIES 160
UNDER FATIMIDS AND SELJUKS 168
THE CRUSADES 176
AYYUBIDS AND MAMLUKS 200
TURKISH PROVINCE 213
INTELLECTUAL AND NATIONALIST STIRRINGS 228
WAR, OPPRESSION AND PESTILENCE 237
UNDER THE FRENCH MANDATE 242
INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC 250
INDEX 259