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The name does not occur in the Bible, but is found in the Apocrypha ( 1 Macc 10:69; 2 Macc 3:5, 8; 4:4; 8:8; 10:11; 1 Esd 2:17, 24, 27; 6:29; 7:1; 8:67; partially parallel to Ezra 4:11, 16, 20; 6:8, 13; 8:36 ). Bibliography E. Bikerman, “La Coelé-Syrie,” RB (1947), 256-268.
COELE-SYRIA. se-le-sir'-i-a (the King James Version Celosyria; Koile Suria, "hollow Syria"): So the Greeks after the time of Alexander the Great named the valley lying between the two mountain ranges, Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon. It is referred to in the Old Testament as Biq`ath ha-Lebhanon, "the valley of Lebanon" ( Joshua 11:17 ), a name the ...
In Ezra 6:3, it is called simply "Syria." Under the emperor Diocletian, Phoenice and Coele-Syria formed one province, called Phoenicia Libanica. Under the present Turkish government the western part of Coele-Syria is in the pashalic of Saide, and the eastern in the pashalic of Damascus. (See SYRIA).
Coelesyria (hollow Syria), the remarkable valley or hollow which intervenes between Libanus and Anti-Libanus, stretching a distance of nearly a hundred miles.
Coele-Syria was allocated to Ptolemy's former ally Seleucus I Nicator, who—having been previously aided by Ptolemy—took no military action to gain control of the region. Their successors, however, became embroiled in a series of conflicts over this issue. Wars over Coele-Syria given by Polybius c. 150 BCE
Coele-Syria (hollow Syria), the remarkable valley or hollow which intervenes between Libanus and Anti-Libanus, stretching a distance of nearly a hundred miles.
COELE-SYRIA, the official Seleucid designation for those portions of Palestine and southern Syria captured by Antiochus iii from the Ptolemies (c. 200 b.c.e.). Under Ptolemaic rule these territories were known officially as "Syria and Phoenicia," but this title was apparently unacceptable to the Seleucids, who felt it necessary to differentiate ...
