The Syrian pound or lira (Arabic: الليرة السورية, romanized: al-līra as-sūriyya; abbreviation: LS or SP in Latin, ل.س in Arabic, historically also £S, and £Syr; ISO code: SYP) is the currency of Syria.It is issued by the Central Bank of Syria.The pound is nominally divided into 100 piastres (قرش qirsh, plural قروش qurūsh in Arabic, abbreviated to p.

This page provides maps and a list of cities and towns during the Syrian civil war. Maps For all towns (size 7 or larger) and strategic places like airfields, border-crossings, ports, dams, military bases and oil fields. For all villages (Size 6 or smaller) and detailed places like hills, factories, neighborhoods and checkpoints. ...

The pound (Egyptian Arabic: جنيه مصرى ge.neːh masˤ.ri; abbreviation: LE in Latin, ج.م in Arabic, historically also £E; ISO code: EGP) is the official currency of Egypt.It is divided into 100 piastres, or ersh (قرش; plural قروش; abbreviation: PT), or 1,000 milliemes (مليم ; …

Background. The Lebanese Civil War that began on 13 April 1975, was the backdrop against which the Syrian military presence in Lebanon was established.. The Middle East's geopolitical landscape was reshaped by the conflicts and wars of June 1967 and October 1973.Israel's resounding win in 1967, compounded by its annexation of the Sinai Peninsula, East Jerusalem …

Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of a presidential republic with nominal multiparty representation in parliament but with most opposition parties suppressed. President Bashar al-Assad, and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party have remained dominant forces in the country's politics since the 1970 coup d'état.. Until the early stages of the Syrian uprising, …

History. Until 1918, Palestine was an integral part of the Ottoman Empire and therefore used its currency, the Ottoman lira.During 1917 and 1918, Palestine was occupied by the British army, who set up a military administration.The official currency was the Egyptian pound, which had been first introduced into Egypt in 1834, but several other currencies were legal tender at fixed exchange …

Wojtek (1942 – 2 December 1963; Polish pronunciation: ; in English, sometimes spelled Voytek and pronounced as such) was a Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus) bought, as a young cub, at a railway station in Hamadan, Iran, by Polish II Corps soldiers who had been evacuated from the Soviet Union.In order to provide for his rations and transportation, he was eventually …

Syria (Arabic: سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, romanized: Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية, romanized: al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It is a unitary republic that consists of 14 governorates (subdivisions), and is bordered ...

The foot–pound–second system or FPS system is a system of units built on three fundamental units: the foot for length, the (avoirdupois) pound for either mass or force (see below), and the second for time. Variants. Collectively, the variants of the FPS system were the most common system in technical publications in English until the middle ...

The krone ([ˈkrûːnə], abbreviation: kr (also NKr for distinction); code: NOK), plural kroner, is currency of the Kingdom of Norway (including Svalbard).Traditionally known as the Norwegian crown in English. It is nominally subdivided into 100 øre, although the last coins denominated in øre were withdrawn in 2012.. The krone was the thirteenth-most-traded currency in the world …