Proper noun
the Syrian Desert
A region of desert, semi-desert and steppe in Western Asia, covering 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles), including parts of south-eastern Syria, northeastern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, and western Iraq.
Palmyrene Aramaic is the dialect that was in use in the Syriac city state of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert from 44 BC to 274 AD. Source: Internet
The scope of the term at that early stage is unclear, but it seems to have referred to various desert-dwelling Semitic tribes in the Syrian Desert and Arabia. Source: Internet