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History of Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2076 words) |
 | Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys. |
| Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdal Nasser's leadership in the wake of the Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt. |
| Syria participated in the multilateral Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid in October 1991, and during the 1990s engaged in direct, face-to-face negotiations with Israel. |
| Roman province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1465 words) |
| Provinces were generally governed by politicians of senatorial rank, usually former consuls or former praetors. |
| During the Empire, the biggest or more garrisoned provinces (example Pannonia and Moesia) were subdivided into smaller provinces in order to prevent the situation whereby a sole governor held too much power in his hands, thus discouraging ambition for the Imperial throne itself. |
| The remaining provinces were maintained as Senatorial provinces, in which the Senate had the right to appoint a governor. |
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