"The historic region of Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: Sura/i; Greek: \u03A3\u03C5\u03C1\u03AF\u03B1; in modern literature called Greater Syria, Syria-Palestine, or inaccurately, the Levant) is an area located east of the Mediterranean sea. The oldest attestation of the name Syria is from the 8th century BC in a bilingual inscription in Hieroglyphic Luwian and Phoenician."@en . . .