Syria’s geographical proximity to Europe has enabled a fostering of deep cultural, societal and economic links between the two that goes back centuries. Not only is Syria located less than 2,000 kilometres from the continent’s eastern-most flank, the two also share a historically significant body of water: the Mediterranean Sea.
In recent years, however, this proximity became a lifeline for some Syrians and a source of political drama for a number of European countries, as the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2011 drove more than one million of its citizens into the continent, pol
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