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 Damascus, Syria's capital, is named after an old Aramaic word that meaning "a well-watered location".[([[https://www.wordsense.eu/Damascus/|wordsense]])] Damascus, Syria's capital, is named after an old Aramaic word that meaning "a well-watered location".[([[https://www.wordsense.eu/Damascus/|wordsense]])]
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 +===== Refugees Seeking Asylum In Europe =====
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 +Around 10% of Syrian refugees have sought asylum in Europe, sparking political debate over which country should assist them.[([[https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/syrian-refugee-crisis-facts|worldvision]])]
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 +===== Unemployment =====
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 +Approximately 60% of Syrians are unemployed. [([[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/syria/|cia]])]
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 +===== Poverty =====
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 +Approximately 82% lives in severe poverty and cannot afford the necessities of life.[([[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/syria/|cia]])]
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 +===== Official Name =====
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 +Syria's official name is "Syrian Arab Republic".[([[https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/syria.htm|nationsonline]])]
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 +===== Old Syrian Roads =====
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 +Some Syrian roads date back over 4,000 years and are still in use today.[([[https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000046520|unesco]])]
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 +===== Life Expectancy Since Civil War =====
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 +Since the start of Syria's civil conflict in 2011, life expectancy has decreased by 20 years.[([[https://healthcluster.who.int/countries-and-regions/syria-damascus|healthcluster]])]
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 +===== Worst Humanitarian Crisis =====
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 +Syria's civil war is the biggest humanitarian calamity of the twenty-first century.[([[https://theconversation.com/the-worst-humanitarian-crisis-of-the-21st-century-5-questions-on-syria-answered-132571|theconversation]])]
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 +===== Turkey And Lebanon Helping Refugees =====
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 +Turkey has the most Syrian refugees, at over 2.5 million. Lebanon has 1.1 million Syrian refugees, accounting for roughly one-fifth of the population.[([[https://sites.google.com/a/macalester.edu/refugees/syria/diasporic-profile|macalester]])]
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 +===== Ebla =====
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 +Ebla, one of Syria's first kingdoms, is home to one of the world's oldest libraries. In 1964, Italian archaeologists unearthed around 20,000 tablets that show traces of being organized on shelves by theme.[([[https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187947|unesco]])]
 +
 +===== Refugees In Iraq =====
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 +Iraq, which already has 3.9 million internally displaced people, is hosting 245,022 Syrian refugees.[([[https://www.refworld.org/docid/56b44dd94.html|refworld]])]
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 +===== Many Deaths =====
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 +Hundreds of Thousands of people have perished in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011. [([[https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/syrian-refugee-crisis-facts|worldvision]])]
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 +===== Worst Exodus =====
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 +Syrians have the world's highest refugee population as of 2016. This is the worst migration since the massacre in Rwanda 20 years ago.[([[https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/quick-facts-syria-crisis|mercycorps]])]
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 +===== Children =====
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 +Almost half of all Syrian refugees are children under the age of 18.[([[https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/quick-facts-syria-crisis|mercycorps]])]
 +
 +===== Queen Zenobia =====
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 +Queen Zenobia (240-274 A.D.) presided over the Palmyrene Empire in Syria and was known as the "warrior queen." She spoke numerous languages and aggressively established an empire that was both independent of, and hence a menace to, Rome.[([[https://www.quora.com/Who-was-Zenobia|quora]])]
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 +===== No Help From Some Rich Countries =====
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 +High-income nations such as Russia, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea have given no places for Syrian refugees to relocate.[([[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/12/facts-figures-syria-refugee-crisis-international-resettlement/|amnesty]])]
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