Siria

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Aleppo, Homs, Latakia — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Damascus is among the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, with settlement dating to the 3rd millennium BCE, and the Umayyad Mosque — built in 705 CE over a Byzantine cathedral that had replaced a Roman temple — compresses the city's layered history into a single building still in active use.

El idioma oficial es árabe, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Siria se contacta mediante el código +963. Syrian craftspeople in the old souks of Damascus and Aleppo produced damask fabric, a weaving technique so identified with the city that the English language preserves the name — and the brocaded silk patterns developed there influenced European textile production for centuries after Crusader-era trade routes opened.

Siria comparte sus fronteras con Líbano, Irak, Turquía, Jordania, Israel. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+02:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Kibbeh — bulgur wheat casing around spiced lamb — is described as the national dish of several Levantine countries, but Syrian preparation, particularly the stuffed fried version from Aleppo and the raw kibbeh nayyeh of the coastal mountains, represents a technique refined over centuries in a region where grinding wheat and lamb together predates recorded cookbooks.

Syrian football club Al-Wahda Damascus, founded in 1928, has won the Syrian Premier League over 30 times and provided the backbone of a national team that reached the 2022 World Cup qualification play-offs — a competitive achievement made extraordinary by the fact that the squad trained across multiple countries during a decade of civil war.

The Syrian Desert's Palmyra oasis, surrounded by 520,000 square kilometres of steppe and sand, sustained one of the ancient world's most important caravan cities precisely because water existed where none should — a geological accident that built an empire and whose destruction by ISIS in 2015 made the fragility of deep history viscerally apparent.