At the it's height it ruled an empire that reached from Syria in the east to Nubia in the south. ... He drove the Asiatics from the delta and campaigned against the Libyans and nomadic tribes in the Sinai and the eastern desert. Trade also expanded to Nubia, Syria and Palestine under his reign. ... Under a series of rulers once again controlled Syria, Palestine and Nubia. ... Thuthmosis I campaigned as far as the Euphrates and first brought Syria and Palestine under Egyptian rule. ...

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In 64BC, these cities fell to the Roman Empire as a part of the providence of Syria. ... The country of Lebanon has three major divisions; the Lebanon Mountains, the valley of Coele-Syria, and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. ... After Egypt's marshy plains, Sinai's cliffs, and the parched desert of dreary Arabia, it's easy to understand why the poets chose Lebanon. ... The name Lebanon is applied to two distinct mountains chains which run parallel on opposite sides of the valley of Coele-Syria. ... The second group is that of the two large rivers of the Bekaa (Coele-Syria valley); t...

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From there the convoys of deportees were directed south toward Syria and Mesopotamia. ... As the deportees converged toward the main trunk lines leading to Syria, the thousands grew to tens of thousands. Covered with dust, their clothes shredded to rags, their footwear torn to bits, men and women once with names, and homes, and professions were reduced to a frightened mass of despairing humanity about to reach the gateway to the desert. Deportee camps swelled in the towns and cities of northern Syria. ... The deportation routes ended at Deir el-Zor, in the middle of barren desert, the ...

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In pre-Islamic times the Arabian peninsula was a desert backwater, largely ignored by the rulers of the Sasanian empire. ... Driven by religious zeal and the desire for the spoils of war, they brought Muslim rule to Syria, Egypt, and what was left of the Sasanian Empire. ... Soon after this victory, Mu"awiya, a Syrian regional governor and cousin of Uthman, began a campaign against Ali to avenge Uthman's death. ... As the Empire grew to include more urbanized, cosmopolitan parts of the middle east such as Syria and Iraq, the Arabian peninsula came to be thought of as a desert was...

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Home to the Bedouin many of whom still live a traditional lifestyle in the desert. ... There are some excellent hotels and restaurants but the city of Aqaba is Jordan's resort town offering the only diving and snorkeling sites and some swim able beaches Jordan is located in the Middle East and is land locked between Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the West Bank of Israel. The terrain is made up of 80% desert plateau in the south and east. ... Forming part of the Great Rift Valley of Africa, it rises just over the Lebanese border and continues the entire length of Jordan form the...

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One of example of air-to-air surveillance is when the Israeli's took on the Syrians and took out 85 of their aircraft in less than two months and they had no loses. ... During combat search and rescue find aircrew who have deserted their vehicle or aircraft. ...

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Wandering the desert for 40 years strengthened their faith and determination. ... Then in 586 B.C.E. the kingdom of Judah was conquered and the Temple destroyed by the Babylonians In 405 B.C.E. the Jews won a war for political independence from Syria and refused to given in to Greek cultural influences. ...

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It is widely accepted that the dogs are equated to the woman and her child, for being a Syrophoenician (Phoenecian from Syria), based on academic conclusions. ... This is because it occurs after Jesus feeds 5,000 Jews, heals them and precedes His healing of a deaf and dumb man in Gentile territory and His feeding of 4,000 Gentiles in the desert. ...

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