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Siria, oficialmente la República Árabe Siria, es un país en Asia Occidental ubicado en el Mediterráneo Oriental y el Levante. Limita con el mar Mediterráneo al oeste, Turquía al norte y noroeste, Irak al este y sureste, Jordania al sur, e Israel y el Líbano al suroeste. Es una república bajo un gobierno provisional y comprende 14 gobernaciones. Damasco es la capital y la ciudad más grande de Siria. Con una población de 26 millones en un área de 185.180 kilómetros cuadrados (71.500 mi²), es el país 56.º más poblado y el 87.º más grande.
“Syria is a melting pot. It existed like this, like it is today because it is a melting pot with multifarious cultures for centuries, before Christianity and after Christianity, before Islam and after Islam. If you have any change, dramatic change, in the demographic and social fabric of the Syrian society, you're going to have a big problem in the future regarding the future of Syria.”
“While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe were close to 2 million by the summer of 1915, the extermination of innocent civilians in Turkey (the Armenians, but also Syrian and Assyrian Christians and large portions of the Greek population, especially the Greeks of Pontos, or Black Sea region) was reaching 1 million.”
“Oh people of Free Syria, building the homeland is the responsibility of all of us, and this is a call to all Syrians to participate in building a new homeland, in which there is rule through justice and consultation.”
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