…In ancient geography, it was the area from the Gulf of Iskenderun (Alexandretta) in the north or south of the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai Peninsula in the south, roughly corresponding to the area from the southeastern tip of Turkey to the Lebanon Republic, the Syrian Arab Republic, Israel, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Greeks gave Syria the adjective "koilē" (mountainous, lowland) and contrasted it with Syria, or Mesopotamia, "between the two rivers, potamos, meso." The topography is generally vertical, characterized by a coastal plain that is often very narrow, a hilly and mountainous area to the east, a deep rift valley that reaches below sea level, consisting of the Orontes River basin, Lake Tiberias (Galilee), the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, and the dried-up Arabah, and a plateau area that continues to the Syrian Desert to the east. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "koilē" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…古代地理では,北はイスケンデルン(アレクサンドレッタ)湾周辺ないしトロス山脈以南から,南はシナイ半島までを含み,現在のトルコ共和国南東端からレバノン共和国,シリア・アラブ共和国,イスラエル,ヨルダン・ハーシム王国にまたがる地域にほぼ相当した。ギリシア人はシリアに〈山あいの(くぼ地の)koilē〉という形容詞をつけ,〈両河potamosの間meso〉のシリアすなわちメソポタミアと対比させた。 地形は全体として縦割りで,それぞれ,しばしば非常に狭まる海岸平野,その東側の丘陵・山岳地帯,そして,オロンテス川流域,ティベリアス(ガリラヤ)湖,ヨルダン川,死海,アラバ涸れ河などからなる,海面下に達する深い地溝,さらにその東側のシリア砂漠に続く高原地帯を特徴とする。… ※「koilē」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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