I want to write a short description about my country which many of you only heard about after the Crisis started and not much familiar of how we were living before that.
Most of what you know you got from media channels like CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC, but these do not show the full picture and in many cases they show what they want only to what serve them better.
Syria is the oldest civilization in the whole world. Our ancestors invented the Alphabet many thousands of years ago and which you're all using. They were the first to plant ie farming, the first to raise cattle and the first to trade.
A French historian once said: Every person in the world has two home countries, where they were born and Syria.
My country is not big in size comparing with other countries, it might be the size of one state in the USA, it's equivalent to the size of the State of Washington and smaller than the size of South Dakota, for comparison.
Our population before the current crisis was estimated at 23 million scattered all over the country with the two major cities of Damascus and Aleppo having the most dense of the population. Damascus was around 6 million and Aleppo was about 4 million. Homs province which the city of Homs is its center was the largest province in Syria by size.
Other major cities, we call province centers, are: Lattakia, Tartous, both on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean, Hama, north of Homs in Central Syria, Quneitra, Daraa and Suwieda in the south of the country, and Hassakeh, Deir Ezzor and Raqqah in the northeast. And of course the dear Idlib which was green loaded with olive trees and now in red and black soaked with blood and sorrows in northwest of the country.
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STOP💥 A Very good post. Thank you! 💥