Syria Prima

Provincia Syria Prima
Province of the Byzantine Empire
415–630s

Syria Prima within the Diocese of the East, c. 400.
CapitalAntioch
(modern-day Antakya, Hatay, Turkey)
History 
• Established
415
• Disestablished
630s
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Coele Syria (Roman province)
Bilad al-Sham
Today part ofSyria
Turkey
Lebanon

Syria I or Syria Prima ("First Syria", in Greek: Πρώτη Συρία, Prṓtē Suríā) was a Byzantine province, formed c. 415 out of Syria Coele. The province survived until the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 630s.


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