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Coele-Syria (/ ˌ s iː l iː ˈ s ɪ r i ə /, Greek: Κοίλη Συρία, Koílē Syría, 'Hollow Syria') was a region of Syria in classical antiquity. The term originally referred to the "hollow" Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges, but sometimes it was applied to a broader area of the region of Syria .
COELE-SYRIA. 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 ...
Coele Syria (Greek: Κοίλη Συρία, Koílē Syría) was a Roman province which Septimius Severus created with Syria Phoenice in 198 by dividing the province of Syria. Its metropolis was Antioch .
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.
Q1123749. Coele Syria (Greek Κοίλη Συρία ): ancient geographical expression to describe several territories in the Near East. The Bekaa valley, seen from the Lebanon Mountains. At first sight, “Coele Syria” appears to be Greek for the “hollow” part of Syria, which may refer to the Bekaa valley.
Under this dynasty the Eastern Mediterranean of the Romans was partitioned into two parts: Syria Coele (“Hollow Syria”), comprising a large region loosely defined as the north and east; and Canaan or Syrio-Phoenicia (both referred to in the New Testament, as indicated above) in the southwestern region, which included not only coastal ...
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The Greek term "Cœle-Syria" originally meant the valley between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, the modern Biḳa', called in the O. T. (Josh. xi. 17, xii. 7) "the valley of Lebanon." Greek writers extend that name vaguely and inconsistently to "the land from Seleucis [ i.e., northern Syria] to Egypt" (Strabo, p. 756), or to central Syria with ...
