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Akkermans: The Archaeology of Syria. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000 - 300 BC). Paperback 
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  • Archaeology of Syria. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000–300 BC). Paperback
  • by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans, Glenn M. Schwartz
  • 486 pages, 112 line diagrams, 79 half-tones, 13 maps. 2004


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Brock: Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. New edition. Paperback 
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  • Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Paperback
  • translated with an introduction by Sebastian P. Brock & Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • xix, 198 pages, with 1 illustration, 1 map, bibliography, index. 1998
  • The 15 hagiographies of holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the 4th to 7th centuries AD, they are translated from Syriac into accessible prose


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Butcher: Roman Syria and the Near East. Hardback 
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  • Roman Syria and the Near East. Hardback
  • by Kevin Butcher
  • 456 pages, with 30 colour and 195 black & white illustrations. 2003. Roman Syria includes some of the most famous and spectacular ruins of the ancient world, Palmyra, Baalbek and Apamea, and fabled cities such as Antioch, Damascus, Sidon and Tyre.


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Campaign 031 Nicolle: Yarmuk 636 AD. The Muslim Conquest of Syria 
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  • Yarmuk 636 AD. The Muslim Conquest of Syria
  • by Nicolle
  • David Nicolle not only looks at the battle itself but also the whole decisive Arab campaign - from the Muslim invasion of 633/4 to the fall of Byzantine Syria.


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Cheneviere: Syrien. Wiege der Kultur. Gebunden 
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  • Syrien. Wiege der Kultur. 29,5 cm. Gebunden
  • by Alain Chenevière
  • 190 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Farbfotos und 1 farbigen Übersichts-Karte. 1996
  • Seit frühgeschichtlicher Zeit war Syrien Schmelztiegel der Völker, Religionen und Kulturen: Assyrer und Ägypter, Perser und Phönizier, Griechen und Römer, Mongolen und Türken, fränkische Ritter und osmanische Statthalter kämpften um die Herrschaft in diesem Land voller Gegensätze.


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Cooper: Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates 
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  • Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates
  • Lisa Cooper
  • 336 pages. 2006. Studying archaeological evidence from sites, covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria, during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.


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Cornelius: Götter und Kulte in Ugarit. Kultur und Religion einer nordsyrischen Königsstadt in der Spätbronzezeit. Gebunden 
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  • Götter und Kulte in Ugarit. Kultur und Religion einer nordsyrischen Königsstadt in der Spätbronzezeit. 21,5x30cm. Gebunden
  • Izak Cornelius und Herbert Niehr
  • iv, 92 Seiten mit 74 Farb-, 44 Schwarzweiß- und 28 Strichabbildungen. 2004
  • Archäologische Einblicke in die Religion und Mythenwelt Syriens in der 2. Hälfte des 2. Jahrtausends vor Christus. Will man sich den Religionen Syriens während der Spätbronzezeit nähern, so bietet die Stadt Ugarit hierzu die besten Voraussetzungen...


9783805332811

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Cowell: A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic. Paperback 
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  • Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic (based on the dialect of Damascus). Paperback.
  • by Mark W. Cowell
  • xiv, 587 pages. 2005
  • Originally created by Cowell in 1964 as part of a series of basic courses, dictionaries, and reference grammars produced by the Georgetown University Arabic Research Program, this text is among a number of out-of-print reference works on Arabic being reissued by Georgetown U. Press


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Flaubert: Reise in den Orient. Ägypten, Nubien, Palästina, Syrien, Libanon. Kartoniert 
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  • Reise in den Orient. Ägypten, Nubien, Palästina, Syrien, Libanon. Kartoniert
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • 424 Seiten. Mit 32 Abbildungen auf Tafeln und 2 Karten. 1996


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Gonnella: Ein christlich-orientalisches Wohnhaus des 17. Jahrhunderts aus Aleppo (Syrien). Gebunden 
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  • Christlich-orientalisches Wohnhaus des 17. Jahrhunderts aus Aleppo (Syrien). Das Aleppo-Zimmer im Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatlichen Museum zu Berlin.
  • Julia Gonnella
  • 76 Seiten, mit 42 Farb- und 28 SW-Abbildungen, Literatur, Anmerkungen. 1996


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Goshen-Gottstein: A Syriac - English Glossary. With Etymological Notes. Paperback 
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  • Syriac - English Glossary. With Etymological Notes. Based on Brockelmann's Syriac Chrestmathy. Paperback
  • M.H. Goshen-Gottstein
  • x, 95 pages. 1970


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Heieck: Crush. Photographien aus Syrien. 19,5x30 cm. Gebunden 
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  • Crush. Photographien aus Syrien. 19,5x30 cm. Gebunden
  • Jörg Heieck. Deutsch-Englisch. Mit ein Text von Esther Saoub. 
  • 59 Seiten mit 24 Duoton-Fotos. 2005


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Macurdy: Hellenistic Queens. A Study of Women-Power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt. Paperback 
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  • Hellenistic Queens. A Study of Women-Power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt. Paperback
  • by Grace Harriet Macurdy
  • 250 pages with text, bibliography, index, 11 pages with illustrations. Reprint 1932 edition


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Muraoka: Classical Syriac: A Basic Grammar with a Chrestomathy. Paperback 
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  • Classical Syriac: A Basic Grammar with a Chrestomathy. Paperback.
  • Takamitsu Muraoka. With a select bibliography compiled by S.P. Brock
  • xxvii, 244 pages. 2. edition 2005. This grammar consists of a descriptive, namely not historical or comparative, grammar of the language with a fairly extensive morphosyntax and syntax, some practical language exercises with key, verb paradigms, a subject index, a bibliography of 25 pages, an anthology of extensively annotated texts representing various genres of the Syriac literature from various periods in the three Syriac scripts, a glossary and a list of proper nouns occurring in the anthology.


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Sartre: The Middle East Under Rome. Paperback 
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  • Middle East Under Rome. Paperback
  • by Maurice Sartre. Translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings
  • xiv, 665 pages. 2005, paperback 2007
  • Buy 6 copies for Euro 179.=


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Woodard: The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia. Paperback 
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  • Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia. Paperback
  • Edited by Roger D. Woodard
  • 282 pages. 2008. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context


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