Geographical Location - Syria
- Aqhat Epic Is Composed in Ugarit
- Arab Members of OPEC Institute an Oil Embargo
- Arameans Emerge in Syria and Mesopotamia
- Armenian Empire Reaches Its Peak Under Tigranes the Great
- Battle of Golan Heights
- Battle of Kadesh
- Battle of Yarmūk
- Byzantine-Muslim Wars
- Byzantine-Persian Wars
- Canaanites Inhabit the Levant
- Cities and Civic Institutions Are Invented in Mesopotamia
- Crusades
- Cyrus the Great Founds the Persian Empire
- Diadochi Divide Alexander the Great’s Empire
- Early Dynastic Period Flourishes in Southern Mesopotamia
- Egypt and Syria Join to Form United Arab Republic
- Egypto-Turkish Wars
- The Fifth Crusade
- Founding of the Ptolemaic Dynasty and Seleucid Kingdom
- Halafian Culture Flourishes in Northern Mesopotamia
- International Age of Major Kingdoms Begins in the Near East
- A Lawyers’ Union Demands Justice and Political Reform in Syria
- Mamlūk-Ottoman War
- March of the Ten Thousand
- Military Actions in Lebanon
- Mitanni Kingdom Flourishes in Upper Mesopotamia
- Muslim Civil War of 657-661
- Muslim Conquests
- Nebuchadnezzar Creates the First Neo-Babylonian State
- Nestorian Controversy
- Ottoman-Druze Wars
- Palestinians Seize Achille Lauro Cruise Ship
- Parthian Empire
- Persian Wars of Expansion
- Revolt of the Maccabees
- Sāsānid Empire
- The Second Crusade
- Settlement Established at Abu Hureyra in Syria
- Siege of Antioch
- Sumerian Civilization Begins in Mesopotamia
- Transmission of the European Alphabet
- Turko-Persian Wars
- Ubaid Culture Thrives in Mesopotamia
- The United Nations Creates an Agency to Aid Palestinian Refugees
- Wars of the Diadochi
- Xenophon Writes the Anabasis
