Syria

Syria

Syria ranks 63rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Pakistan, Algeria, and Tunisia. Memorable people born in present day Syria include Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad, and Elagabalus. Memorable people who died in Syria include Saladin, Hafez al-Assad, and Al-Farabi. Syria has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures.

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. It is a republic under a transitional government and comprises 14 governorates. Damascus is the capital and largest city. With a population of 25 million across an area of 185,180 square kilometres (71,500 sq mi), it is the 57th-most populous and 87th-largest country. Read more on Wikipedia