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Syria

Map of Syria, Palestine, Turkey, and Mesopotamia from the Baedeker 1912 travel guide Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus.

Map of Syria, Palestine, Turkey, and Mesopotamia from the Baedeker 1912 travel guide Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus.

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With Palestine, that part of the Ottoman Empire from Turkey to Egypt on the Mediterranean coast. Syria lay on the Syria/Palestine Front.

Syria is a region in Ottoman Empire.