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Syria after the fall of Assad is considering the legalization of Bitcoin, including partially backing the Syrian Pound and mining with excess energy reserves. Syria’s economy is in a bad state, to put ...

"By the end of the fourteenth century [Venetian] ducats were the only European gold currency accepted in Mamluk Egypt and Syria," Kool wrote in the study. Most of the Mamluk coins in the hoard ...

in some parts of Syria. On the other side of the coin, the protesters are citing various reasons for their actions, including concerns over persecution of Christians and Alawites. People carry ...