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| Coele-Syria | |||||||||||||||||
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| Region of Macedonian Empire / Ptolemaic Kingdom / Seleucid Empire/ Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity) | |||||||||||||||||
| 332 BCE–64 BCE | |||||||||||||||||
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| Historical era | Hellenistic era | ||||||||||||||||
| 332 BCE | |||||||||||||||||
| 274–168 BCE | |||||||||||||||||
| 140 BCE | |||||||||||||||||
| 64 BCE | |||||||||||||||||
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Coele-Syria (/ˈsiːli ... /; Ancient Greek: Κοίλη Συρία, romanized: Koílē Syría, lit. 'Hollow Syria') was a region of Syria in classical antiquity. The term originally referred to the "hollow" Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges, but sometimes it was applied to a broader area of the region of Syria. The area is now part of modern-day Syria and Lebanon.