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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [QB] Just noting that Cappadocia was Anatolia/Turkey. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Cappadocian_Greek_homeland.JPG[/IMG] So there was more "white Syrians" there than "black." [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE] It seems that the name of the Syrians extended not only from Babylonia to the Gulf of Issus, but also in ancient times from this gulf to the Euxine. At any rate, both tribes of the Cappadocians, both those near the Taurus and those near the Pontus, have to the present time been called "White Syrians," as though some Syrians were black, these being the Syrians who live outside the Taurus; and when I say "Taurus," I am extending the name as far as the Amanus. When those who have written histories of the Syrian empire say that the Medes were overthrown by the Persians and the Syrians by the Medes, they mean by the Syrians no other people than those who built the royal palaces in Babylon and Ninus; and, of these Syrians, Ninus was the man who founded Ninus in Aturia, and his wife, Semiramis, was the woman who succeeded her husband and founded Babylon. --STRABO GEOGRAPHY p195 Book XVI, Chapter 1 [/QUOTE]It is evident that altogether the physical types of the Assyrians and Babylonians were very nearly alike, though the Babylonians had a somewhat sparer form, longer and more flowing hair, less strong and stern features, and a darker complexion. The last characteristic is to be attributed partly to the infusion of Ethiopian elements in the popu- lation, and partly to their more tropical location, Babylonia being four degrees farther south than Assyria. The Cha'ab Arabs, who now occupy the southern parts of the ancient Babylonia, are almost black ; while the " black Syrians," mentioned by Strabo, were probably the Babylonians. --POPULAR SCIENCE 1910 A RECORD OF THE- HUMAN RACE FROM THE EARLIEST HISTORICAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME; Complete in Twenty-Five Volumes [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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