William Roe Polk
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LOCATION: Vence 06140, France
Historian. Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago, 1965–75. Author of The United States and the Arab World.
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Syria, country located on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Asia. Its area includes territory in the Golan Heights that has been occupied by Israel since 1967. The present area does not coincide with ancient Syria, which was the strip of fertile land lying between the eastern…
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