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Ottoman Syria

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Also known as Ottoman Levant, Syria, Levant

the region of Syria under the Ottoman Empire (1516–1918)

Key facts

Capital
Administered from Istanbul
Type
Monarchy
First egyptian ottoman war
1831–1833
Second egyptian ottoman war
1839–1841

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Ottoman Syria (Arabic: سوريا العثمانية) is a historiographical term used to describe the group of divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the region of the Levant, usually defined as being east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Arabian Desert and south of the Taurus Mountains.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ottoman Syria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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