Governments
The rule of government that has either a king or queen in rule that Syria claims to use.
What is a monarchy?
This castle is located around the heart of the city of Aleppo.
What is the Aleppo Citidel?
This person is the 18th king of Syria, and died in 2000, with his son being the successor to the throne.
Who is Hafez al-Assad?
This spanned from Iraq to norther Turkey, and parts of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The flag that the Syrians currently use.
What is the Independence Flag?
The government system that Syria is less known for using, but also claims to use it.
What is a republic, also known as a democracy?
This is one of the most famous mosques in the world, which also just so happens to be one of the best standing in the world.
What is the Damascus mosque?
This person is the current king of Syria, and is also the 19th king. This is his 24th year of his rule. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled for the longest time, with a ruling span of 29 years.
Who is Bashar al-Assad?
This country colonized Syria in 1920
What is France?
The name of the flag that is currently being used by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, better known as the Free Syrian Army or the Syrian Rebels.
What is the Ensign of the State of Syria?
The government that Syria actually uses, but doesn't want to publicaly say that they are using it.
What is an authoritarian/totalitarianist government?
This palace is in Damascus and built in the 15th century.
What is the Al Azem palace?
This person was bishop of Rome in 685 A.D until his death in 686 A.D. He was the first of ten bishops of Rome that were of Byzantine decent.
Who is Pope John V?
This movement within the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, Sudan, Mauritania, Jordan, and Lebanon caused the Syria civil war after trying to change their government in 2011.
What is the Arab Spring?
This flag is not only the Jewish flag, but also is flown around the area known as Golan Heights.
What is the flag of Israel?
Turkey sees this rebel group in Syria as a terrorist group.
Who are the Syrian Democratic Forces?
This mosque is in Damascus, because just like everything else, all famous things in Syria are in the capital. It isn't far from the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
What is the Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque?
This person was a famous poet, essayist, and translator from the 1900's.
Who is Ali Ahmad Said?
This empire controlled much of the Balkan Peninsula, north Africa, and the Middle East. They also controlled Syria from the 1500's to 1920.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This flag had a white crescent in a blue background, with a small French flag in the top left corner.
What is the French Syria flag?
This was the government title of the merged Syria and Egypt, which effectively ended the Republic of Egypt.
This famous ruins in the city of Palmyra, Syria, which was once the greatest Roman ruins in the world.
What is the Ruins of Palmyra?
This person is part of tradition that made the founding of the land in Syria in 1000 B.C.
Who is David?
This area is currently occupied by Israel, and also was controlled by Israel in the 1960's.
What is Golan Heights?
This flag is being used by the Syrian Kurds, which are to the northeast of Syria
What is the Syrian Democratic Forces flag?