Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... Aleppo were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets, were important ...

What is striking about the present map of Syria is how closely it resembles ... Until 1918, it was the chief town of an Ottoman vilayet of Syria extending from Hama in central Syria to Aqaba ...

From the Islamic caliphate to the Ottoman Empire ... This historic map shows that the tribes had taken Syrian land and northern Iraqi ground in its first effort. A later expansion under Suleiman ...