Syria is known by that name and the time of the Seleucids continued on, and add something to the effect that the name is very old but did not appear in Arabic literature at the open only when the Roman emperor Heraclius said to his defeat for the Arabs Editors (Peace upon you, O Syria, peace is hoped that the applicant is up to you never ) claim was made in a dictionary of countries, citing a book Fotouh, then in the ancient Arabic sources nothing. The foreign sources was summed and was elected contained therein senior Arab historians Kalmtaran Dr. Yusuf Dibs. Philip says, even the first in the book History of Syria Volume I, p. 11 (and the first named this country, Greece and Syria are the poet Homer called Aramean population. That Herodotus (who was born in 484 BC). What we know is on the first named this country Syria, followed by the Greeks and Romans, but what to get them to this designation provides an ancient words of scientists, including:
First, it called Syria's relation to her hometown of marine pictures famous Greece was known to many people reluctant to trade their Vsmohm Syria, Syrian and their replacement repellent Balsen the absence of a repellent in their language. The word grate Balveniqip meaning rock or fence and sees this name inscribed on ancient coins found in this city.
The closest health is the second one for naming Syria, which Greece was named the country to Syria, the proportion of fractions or Assyria Assyrians country because it was the country's Assyrian days Greece fired Name (Syria) deleting the word spelling, watering down the first and swap between the Seine and the Shin outbreak, even in the word Assyria and fractions (Assyrian / Asorip) has been Syria.
And see some of ancient Greece call Mesopotamia and Armenia and also some Persia Syria's name synonymous with the name of the Kingdom of Assyria, the Assyrians), and exclude the possibility Bishop molasses derived weak. Ancient Greeks called the name of the Phoenician all Syria and Canaan. Today, approved by the Assembly Phoenician proper partners in the homeland as a north-west coastal region of the Levant, which centered in the Phoenician city which at the present time and Ugarit Arwad, pictures, and Tartous Amrit, Sidon and Byblos. Which belong now to the coast of Syria and Lebanon. There is also a city in Turkey is currently attributed to the Phoenician, where it is believed to be derived from the name of the Lycians is the name of the company was traded with the Phoenicians in ancient times.