• Bab Tuma (Arabic: بَابُ تُومَا, romanized: Bāb Tūmā, meaning: "Gate of Thomas") is a neighborhood located in the Old city of Damascus in Syria. It is...
    3 KB (345 words) - 15:34, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Damascus
    city are Bab Tuma, Qassaa and Ghassani. Each have many churches, most notably the ancient Chapel of Saint Paul and St Georges Cathedral in Bab Tuma. At the...
    128 KB (13,677 words) - 21:59, 11 September 2024
  • Tuma may refer to: Bab Tuma (Saint Thomas's Gate), borough of Damascus Tuma-La Dalia, municipality in the Matagalpa department of Nicaragua Tuma, a minor...
    849 bytes (133 words) - 04:47, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old city of Damascus
    street is filled with small shops and leads to the old Christian quarter of Bab Tuma (St. Thomas's Gate). Medhat Pasha Souq is also a main market in Damascus...
    23 KB (2,271 words) - 09:03, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cathedral of Saint George, Damascus
    The Cathedral of Saint George is a Syriac Orthodox cathedral located in Bab Tuma district, in Old Damascus, Syria. The Cathedral acts as the seat of the...
    2 KB (150 words) - 01:52, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paul Anka
    his autobiography that his ancestors came from Bab Tuma, in Syria. His father came to Canada from Bab Tuma, Damascus, Syria, and his mother was an immigrant...
    41 KB (3,404 words) - 17:27, 14 September 2024
  • northeastern part of the city and borders the Old City neighborhood of Bab Tuma. It had a population of 11,467 in the 2004 census. Al-Qassaa's inhabitants...
    7 KB (334 words) - 13:26, 19 August 2021
  • Thumbnail for Syriac Orthodox Church
    War I. The current see of the church is the Cathedral of Saint George, Bab Tuma, Damascus, Syria, since 1959. Since 2014, Ignatius Aphrem II has served...
    153 KB (13,877 words) - 03:14, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bab Sharqi
    Bab Sharqi (Arabic: بَابٌ شَرْقِيٌّ, romanized: Bāb Šarqī; "The Eastern Gate"), also known as the Gate of the Sun, is one of the seven ancient city gates...
    4 KB (477 words) - 03:03, 24 March 2021
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Damascus (1400)
    still bears the name "Burj al-Ru'us" (between modern-day Al-Qassaa and Bab Tuma), originally the tower of heads. After the capture of Damascus, Timur's...
    8 KB (873 words) - 13:59, 4 July 2024
  • an island in São Tomé and Príncipe Saint Thomas's Gate, also known as Bab Tuma, a district of Damascus, Syria St. Thomas College, Bhilai, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh...
    6 KB (803 words) - 16:01, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ghuta
    Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam Bab Kisan Bab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais Jaqmaq Caravansarai...
    14 KB (1,497 words) - 10:53, 7 September 2024
  • Orthodox (includes the Malankara Church and other Saint Thomas Christians) – Bab Tuma borough, Damascus, Syria (formerly Antioch; temporarily stationed in Homs...
    68 KB (7,533 words) - 12:13, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antiochian Greek Christians
    Damascus. The Antiochians had taken refuge in the churches and monasteries of Bab Tuma ("Saint Thomas' Gate"). The Massacre was a part of the 1860 Mount Lebanon...
    43 KB (4,654 words) - 15:32, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Damascus (1148)
    decided to move to the plain on the eastern side of the city, opposite Bab Tuma and Bab Sharqi, which was less heavily fortified but had much less food and...
    30 KB (3,756 words) - 09:57, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bab al-Jabiyah
    Bab al-Jabiya (Arabic: بَابُ الْجَابِيَّةِ, romanized: Bāb al-Jābīyah; Gate of the Water Trough) is one of the seven ancient city-gates of Damascus, Syria...
    3 KB (402 words) - 11:10, 14 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Municipalities of Damascus
    (Old City) 24,721 Amarah Juwaniyyah (pop. 2,451) Al-Amin (pop. 3,220) Bab Tuma (pop. 5,746) Al-Hamidiyya (pop. 208) Al-Hariqa (pop. 266) Jura (pop. 2...
    7 KB (141 words) - 12:31, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amr ibn al-As
    the battles of Ajnadayn and Fahl had gathered. Amr was positioned at the Bab Tuma gate, the Muslim commanders having each been assigned to block one of the...
    62 KB (8,324 words) - 23:53, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint Ananias House
    Apostle). The building is at the end of the Street Called Straight near the Bab Sharqi (Eastern Gate). Archaeological excavations in 1921 found the remains...
    7 KB (186 words) - 09:17, 17 December 2022
  • Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam Bab Kisan Bab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais Jaqmaq Caravansarai...
    3 KB (263 words) - 00:34, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus
    Kurdish auxiliary forces attacked the inner city Christian neighborhood of Bab Tuma, resulting in the death of thousands of Christians. The early reports of...
    74 KB (9,299 words) - 02:39, 11 September 2024
  • soon broke down. On 13 May, there was heavy fighting in the suburb by the Bāb Tūmā. It was burnt. A week later, al-Nāṣir expelled the refugees from the Ghūṭa...
    10 KB (1,271 words) - 19:08, 29 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Greeks in Syria
    Damascus. The Rûm had taken refuge in the churches and monasteries of Bab Tuma ("Saint Thomas' Gate"). The Massacre was a part of the 1860 Mount Lebanon...
    33 KB (3,560 words) - 21:54, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Amarah, Syria
    Districts: Amarah Juwaniyyah Al-Amin Bab Tuma Al-Hamidiyya Al-Hariqa Jura Ma'azanat ash-Shahm Qaymariyya Shaghour al-Juwani...
    6 KB (862 words) - 15:44, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Rummaneh
    Districts: Amarah Juwaniyyah Al-Amin Bab Tuma Al-Hamidiyya Al-Hariqa Jura Ma'azanat ash-Shahm Qaymariyya Shaghour al-Juwani...
    5 KB (69 words) - 06:05, 25 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Capture of Damascus
    Cavalry Brigade which had passed through Damascus at 10:30 also through the Bab Tuma gate to deploy outposts. The next day, at 06:15 on 2 October 1918 a long...
    117 KB (15,784 words) - 11:37, 6 September 2024
  • Catholic Christians who had taken refuge in the churches and monasteries of Bab Tuma ("Saint Thomas’s Gate"). Many alumni of Joseph's Patriarchal School of...
    4 KB (292 words) - 16:25, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rif Dimashq offensive (February–April 2018)
    Damascus city, with particular preference for the Christian borough of Bab Tuma within the Old City district. On 7 March, activists in the residential...
    159 KB (13,772 words) - 23:09, 12 September 2024
  • Syrian missile program, Nabil Zughaib, along with his family members in Bab Tuma on 22 July 2012. "Nuclear engineer assassinated in central Syria". 28 September...
    3 KB (269 words) - 05:15, 3 June 2023
  • Native name Colette Khoury (Arabic: كوليت خوري) Born 1931 (age 92–93) Bab Tuma, Damascus, Syria Occupation Writer, Professor, Poet, Member of Parliament...
    11 KB (1,149 words) - 00:03, 5 July 2024