Date
Type Country & Region
Usage English, Polish, Norwegian, Greek, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greek
Scripts Συρία(Greek)
Meaning & History
From Greek Συρία (Syria), which was probably a variant of Assyria, used in an expanded sense to refer to the northern Levant. This was the name of a province of the Roman Empire. It is now the name of a country in western Asia, having gained independence from the Ottoman Empire early in the 20th century.