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Coele-Syria. Coele-Syria ( / ˌsiːliːˈsɪriə /, 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.
The Syrian Wars were a series of six wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, successor states to Alexander the Great 's empire, during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC over the region then called Coele-Syria, one of the few avenues into Egypt.
- 274–271 BC; 260–253 BC; 246–241 BC; 219–217 BC; 202–195 BC; 170–168 BC
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It is called el-Bukaa, which is strictly the same as the Hebrews Bikah (בַּקְעָה). In the apocryphal books there is frequent mention of Coele-Syria in a somewhat vague sense, nearly as an equivalent for Syria ( 1 Esdras 2:17 ; 1 Esdras 2:24 ; 1 Esdras 2:27 ; 1 Esdras 4:48 ; 1 Esdras 6:29 ; 1 Esdras 7:1 ; 1 Esdras 8:67 ; 1 Maccabees 10: ...
The name Coele for the region is most likely derived from the Aramic word kul which means "all" or "the entire" and was used to identify the entire region of Syria which was previously occupied by the Arameans. Coele also means "hollow" in Koine Greek so some historians and linguists believe they may be referring to the gap known as the Beqaa ...
The term is defined by Herodotus (3:91) as the fifth satrapy of the Persian Kingdom, and would thus refer to all the lands between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean, from Cilicia to Egypt. Ptolemy Lagus referred to southern Syria as "Coele-Syria" as a means to claiming the rule of the whole of Syria.
It is also possible that coele renders the Aramaic word kul, “all”. This theory leaves unexplained why the ancients did not call Syria simply “Syria” and used the expression “all of Syria” to describe what was just a part of it.
CŒLE-SYRIA: By: Emil G. Hirsch, W. Max Muller. The name, occurring in the Greek apocryphal writings, of a Persian province lying between Egypt and the Euphrates. In old editions it is given as "Celosyria."
