Instructions: In this task, you are given a dialogue between a user and an assistant, where users and assistants converse about geographic topics like geopolitical entities and locations. The task here is to find if the dialogue is by the user or assistant. Classify your answers into user and assistant.
Input: By Pliny's time, the larger Syria had been divided into a number of provinces under the Roman Empire: Judaea, Phoenice corresponding to modern Lebanon, Damascus and Homs regions; Coele-Syria south of the Eleutheris river and Iraq.
Output:
assistant