The legend of the Syrian princess Europe, which was named after the continent of Europe

It is a legend written by the Greeks and told through it the story of the Syrian Princess of Europe, the daughter of the Syrian King Agenor, King of Tyre on the Syrian coast

The story was also mentioned by the Alexandrian poet Musikhos BC, and the legend says that a Syrian-Phoenician king named Agenor was ruling Phenicia, his father Poseidon and his mother Libya, which gave its name to the continent of Africa, later and the children of this king are / his daughter Europe and Cadmus, who gave his name to Greece - Kadamia

The legend continues that Zeus, the Lord of lords and the great Olympian goddess in Greece, knew the beauty and perfection of the Syrian-Phoenician princess in Europe, as he once saw her from Mount Olympus, and fell into the nets of her beauty and beauty. back and crossed out the sea.

Even if he reached Greece with her, he announced his marriage to her, and thus the continent bore the name “Europe”, and it happened that King Agenor lost his daughter, but he did not find her, so he sent her brother Cadmus after her to search for her, and when he reached Thebes, the people welcomed him, and there he taught them the Syrian-Phoenician alphabet and established The ancient city and the legend about the Syrian princess Europe and how the country of the Greeks was named after her, embodied in the person of the charming charming Europe, the daughter of the Syrian king Agenor, that she wished to sail to a new land that no one had reached before

The legend narrates the journey of the Syrian princess from the coast of Syria to the new land and the accompanying events, to reveal a land or continent that was not called by a name before, so Europe was named after the Syrian princess and in her honor. A world was unknown, and she married and gave birth to her husband, the god Zeus, children, each of whom ruled a city after that
The Greeks always held this belief that Syria is the home of the name of Europe and its cradle, and to it they looked and when they came with Alexander the Macedonian to Syria in the third century B.C.
Christmas, Syria had a lot of holiness in their souls, so they established a city they called the city of Europe, which is called today Al-Salihiya, or the Euphrates Salhia, in Deir Al-Zour in eastern Syria.