> coele syria appears to be greek for the hollow part of syria, which may refer to the bekaa valley. > it is also possible that coele renders the aramaic word kul, all. this theory leaves unexplained why the ancients did not call syria simply syria and used the expression all of syria to describe what was just a part of it. > the term coele-syria was also used in a wider sense to indicate "all syria" or "all syria except phoenicia here's your lesson for today, it was a frontier
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