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Coele-Syria
Coele-Syria, Coele Syria, or Coelesyria (, ''Koílē Syría''), also rendered as Coelosyria and Celesyria, was a region of Syria in classical antiquity. It probably derived from the Aramaic for ''all'' of the region of Syria but more often was applied to the Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges. The area now forms part of the modern nations of Lebanon and Syria.
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It is widely accepted that the term Coele is a transcription of Aramaic ''kul'', meaning "all, the entire", such that the term originally identified ''all'' of Syria.〔, "La Syrie creuse n'existe pas", in G. L. Gatier, ''et al.'' ''Géographie historique au proche-orient'' (1988:15-40), reviving the explanation offered by A. Schalit (1954), is reported by Robin Lane Fox, ''Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer'' (2008, notes p378f): "the crux is solved".〕〔(The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, Getzel M. Cohen, 2006 ) and (pdf here )〕〔(A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 2, Lester L. Grabbe, p173 ) "Yet the suggestion is widely accepted that the name actually derives from Aramaic for "all Syria", which was then assimilated by the Greeks to a more usual pattern for place names"〕 The word "Coele", which literally means "hollow" in Koine Greek, is thought to have come about via a folk etymology referring to the "hollow" Beqaa Valley between Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon mountains.〔 However, the term Coele-Syria was also used in a wider sense to indicate "all Syria" or "all Syria except Phoenicia", by the writers; Pliny, Arrian, Ptolemy〔From Sartre, pages 21-25: Diodorus 18.6.3, 61.4; 20.73.2; Polybius 8.17.10–11; Pliny, Naturalis Historiæ 5.106–10; Arrian Anabasis 2.13.7; Ptolemy 5.14.1.〕 and also Diodorus Siculus, who indicated Coele-Syria to at least stretch as far south as Joppa,〔Diodorus Siculus c.150 BCE, ''Bibliotheca historica'', XIX, 93; XXIX, 29〕〔(Diodorus of Sicily, with an English translation by C.H. Oldfather )〕 while Polybius stated that the border between Egypt and Coele-Syria lay between the towns of Rhinocolara and Rhaphia.〔Polybius c.150 BCE, ''The Histories'', Book 3, Chapter 2〕
The first and only official use of the term was during the period of Seleucid rule of the region, between c. 200 BCE and 64 BCE. During this period, the term "Coele Syria and Phoenicia" or "Coele Syria" was also used in a narrower sense to refer to the former Ptolemaic territory which the Seleucids now controlled, being the area south of the river Eleutherus. This usage was adopted by Strabo and the Books of the Maccabees. However, Greek writers such as Agatharchides〔Agatharchides (5.87, quoted in Diodorus Siculus's ''Bibliotheca historica''; Strabo's ''Geographica'', and Photios' ''Bibliotheca'') 〕 and Polemon of Athens used the term Palestine to refer to the region during this period, which was a term originally given circa 450 BCE by Herodotus. Later during the Roman Period c.350 CE, Eunapius wrote that the capital of Coele-Syria was the Seleucid city of Antioch, which is North of the Eleutherus.〔(Eunapius, Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists )〕
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