Charles Gordon Smith
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Emeritus Fellow of Keble College, Oxford; former Lecturer in Geography, University of Oxford. Editor of Oxford Regional Economic Atlas: The Middle East and North Africa.
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Syria, country located on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Asia. Its area includes territory in the Golan Heights that has been occupied by Israel since 1967. The present area does not coincide with ancient Syria, which was the strip of fertile land lying between the eastern…
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