thumb|Cappadocian Tributaries East Staircase of Apadana, commissioned by [[Darius the Great .]] The Leuco-Syrians or literally White Syrians ( or ), also known as Syrians ( or ), and Cappadocians () were an ancient people in central Anatolia during the period of Classical Antiquity. Until now, whether the White Syrians were a Semitic or Indo-European people, or neither, is unknown.
thumb|Cappadocian Tributaries East Staircase of Apadana, commissioned by [[Darius the Great .]] The Leuco-Syrians or literally White Syrians ( or ), also known as Syrians ( or ), and Cappadocians () were an ancient people in central Anatolia during the period of Classical Antiquity. Until now, whether the White Syrians were a Semitic or Indo-European people, or neither, is unknown.
== Name == Leuco-Syroi translates literally to White-Syrians. Strabo suggested this distinction was made by the Greeks to distinguish the Syrians of Anatolia from those of Mesopotamia (Assyrians) and the Levant (Syrians).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).