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  2. People! - Wikipedia

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    People! was an American one-hit wonder rock band that was formed in San Jose, California in 1965. Their greatest chart success came with their summer hit single "I Love You" . The song, written by The Zombies bass guitarist Chris White , rose to number one in Japan (twice), Israel, Australia, Italy, South Africa, and the Philippines, and peaked ...

  3. Syrians - Wikipedia

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    Syrians (Arabic: سوريون) are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, who have Arabic, especially its Levantine dialect, as a mother tongue.The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years.

  4. Refugees of the Syrian civil war - Wikipedia

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    There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Refugees of the Syrian civil war are citizens and permanent residents of Syria who have fled the country throughout the Syrian civil war. The pre-war population of the Syrian Arab Republic was estimated at 22 million (2017), including permanent residents. [1]

  5. Syria - Wikipedia

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    سوريا. Syria, [ a] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [ b] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.

  6. Modern history of Syria - Wikipedia

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    The violent events were an explosion of a long-running feud between Hafez al-Assad and his younger brother Rifaat, [11] who previously attempted to initiate a coup against Hafez in 1984, but was eventually expelled from Syria. Two people were killed in fire exchanges of Syrian police and Rifaat's supporters during police crack-down on Rifaat's ...

  7. Foreign relations of Syria - Wikipedia

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    The political states of Iraq and Syria were formed by the United Kingdom and France following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Iraq and Syria are united by historical, social, political, cultural and economic relations, but share a long foreign drawn border.

  8. Contemporary underground music in Syria - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary underground music in Syria. Contemporary underground Music in Syria refers to a genre of music that originated and evolved outside the commercial mainstream, especially during the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 and resulted in the restrictive environment and censorship of creative expression. [1]

  9. Geography of Syria - Wikipedia

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    Syria is located in West Asia, north of the Arabian Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west and southwest, Iraq to the east, and Jordan to the south. It consists of mountain ranges in the west and a steep area inland. In the east is the Syrian Desert and in ...