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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hitti, Philip Khuri, 1886-1978. Syria, a short history. New York, Macmillan, 1959 (OCoLC)581630866 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Khuri Hitti |
| OCLC Number: | 788791 |
| Description: | 270 p. illus. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Place in history -- The land and climate -- Prehistoric eras -- The ancient Semites -- The Hellenistic age -- Romans and Semites -- Byzantines and Arabs -- Moslem conquest -- The glory that was Damascus -- Life under the Umayyads -- Abbasid province -- Petty dynasties -- Under Fatimids and Seljuks -- The crusades -- Ayyubids and Mamluks -- Turkish province -- Intellectual and nationalist stirrings -- War, oppression and pestilence -- Under the French mandate -- Independent republic. |
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