Research Home
Tools
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Full Record Display
Vernacular Display
|
English Display
Click the
icon to view the hierarchy.
Semantic View
(
JSON
,
JSONLD
,
RDF
,
N3/Turtle
,
N-Triples
)
ID: 8711750
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8711750
Record Type:
administrative
Ancient Syria (general region)
Note:
General reference to the ancient area of the fertile crescent. For the The historical region of Western Asia immediately east of the Mediterranean, roughly comprising the area of the modern nation of Syria, prefer "Syria (historical)."
Names:
Ancient Syria
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ancient Syria
(general region) (
P
)
Place Types:
general region (
preferred
,
C
)
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Syria
.......... (general region)
..................................
(World, Asia) [7594765]
meaning/usage overlaps with ....
Mesopotamia
.......... (general region)
..................................................
(World, Asia) [7001554]
Sources and Contributors:
Ancient Syria..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use
/
Privacy Policy
/
Contact Us
icon to view the hierarchy.
