History
Before 1960 both Idlib Governorate and Raqqa Governorate were part of Aleppo Governorate. Raqqa Governorate was called at first Rashīd Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الرشيد) and was renamed in 1962.
In Classical Antiquity, the region was contained in three regions: Chalybonitis (center is Chalybon or Aleppo), Chalcidice (center is Qinnasrīn العيس), and Cyrrhestica (center is Cyrrhus النبي حوري). This was the most fertile and populated region in Syria. Under the Romans the region was made in 193 CE part of the province of Coele Syria or Magna Syria, which was ruled from Antioch. The province of Euphratensis was established in the 4th century CE in the east, its center was Hierapolis (Manbij).
Under the Rashidun and Umayyad Muslims, the region was part of the Jund Qinnasrīn. In the Abbasid period the region was under the independent rule of the Hamdanids. The Mamluks and later the Ottomans governed the area until 1918. Under the Ottomans, the region was part of the Vilayet of Aleppo.
During the French Mandate the region was part of the brief State of Aleppo.
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