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Contents 1 Greater Syria 2 Kuwait? 3 Kingdom? 4 What about SE Turkey? 5 Merge Bilad al-Sham into this 6 Irredentist term!? 7 I agree with the merging 8 Remove

[edit] Greater Syria

this is not just greater syria it <s with the regions that Assyrians lived 2000 years ago

Thanks for the map

Actually, the map is rather inappropriate on its own. One major modern relevance of the concept of Greater Syria is to the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, notably its influence on early Palestinian nationalism. To show 'historic Syria' undifferentiated from Iraq gives the wrong impression, in that the real commercial and landholding historical linkages between Syria, Palestine and Lebanon are subsumed under a much wider and purely political project. Agathias of Aeolis 05:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The user above is correct this wiki page is a bit mixed up in regards to terminology. The Sham does not include Iraq (& Kuwait). Sham, Iraq & Kuwait make up ancient Assyria and its dominions, which is not the Sham. Mazighe (talk) 08:07, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kuwait?

Does Kuwait consider part of greater syria ??? I cant beleive it, I always hear from them that they consider themselves as part of the gulf, not greater syria. SeMiTiC

[edit] Kingdom?

Faisal I of Iraq is listed as having briefly been "King of Greater Syria" - can someone with knowledge detail the physical kingdom here? Timrollpickering 10:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What about SE Turkey?

Modern-day "Southeastern Turkey" is a vital aprt of hisoric Syria. At the Paris peace Conference, Diyarbakir Province was claimed. These claims went ignored by the Great Powers of course.

[edit] Merge Bilad al-Sham into this

I still don't understand why there is an article about the same thing, just with a title in another language. Shouldn't they be merged? Funkynusayri 11:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, I'll start on it right now Al Ameer son 19:39, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Irredentist term!?

Umm, how can we be classifying a legitimate historical-geographical term as "irredentist" based solely on its present day association with Syrian irredentism? Do we apply the same standards to, say, Judea and Samaria or Eretz Yisrael? Obviously, we should mention the irredentist / expansionist claims made by the SSNP and others, but calling the term "Greater Syria" irredendist in itself is a stretch bordering on using Wikipedia as a soapbox. <eleland/talkedits> 05:55, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I agree with the merging

The Sham and Greater Syria articles should be merged. They are two names for the same thing.HD1986 (talk) 04:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Remove

i suggest the article to be removed since there no reference whatsoever for its main argument/claim: that all these territories are claimed by the ssnp, the map on top of this is even more ridicilous: somebody took the effort to make this without stating what it is based on? how hard is it to reference something like this?78.29.210.205 (talk) 12:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

You may have a point there. The source for the map is given as... the map itself. However it is more or less in line with what the SSNP claims.[1] I do think it is very problematic that this article is so heavily front-loaded with the SSNP nationalist claims, rather than discussing the very real and legitimate cultural-historical region of Syria. The article used to claim that just using the term "Greater Syria" was irredentist... yeah, it's been a problematic article. <eleland/talkedits> 13:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)