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    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...
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  • Jabiyah (Arabic: الجابية / ALA-LC: al-Jābiya) was a town of political and military significance in the 6th–8th centuries. It was located between the Hawran...
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    western gate, or Bab al-Jabiyah. Damascus was conquered by Muslims during the Rashidun era. Following the capture of Damascus by Khalid ibn al-Walid's army...
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    Bab Tuma (Arabic: بَابُ تُومَا, romanized: Bāb Tūmā, meaning: "Gate of Thomas") is an area of the Old City of Damascus in Syria, and is also the name of...
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    in the northwest corner of the city walls, between the Bab al-Faradis and the Bab al-Jabiyah. The citadel consists of a more or less rectangular curtain...
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    Damascus (redirect from Al-Shami)
    Bab al-Faradis ("the gate of the orchards", or "of the paradise") Bab al-Salam ("the gate of peace"), all on the north boundary of the Old City Bab Tuma...
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  • neighborhood of Bab Tuma. It had a population of 11,467 in the 2004 census. Al-Qassaa's inhabitants are predominantly upper class Christians. Al-Qassaa was...
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  • Institute of Sharia section of the Institute of Islamic Sciences, in Bab al-Jabiyah in Damascus. He then went to Medina and obtained a bachelor's degree...
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    Bab al-Saghir (also called "Goristan-e-Ghariban"), dedicated to Jupiter. Bab al-Jabiyah (Gate of the Water Trough), dedicated to Mars. Bab al-Faradis...
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    headquarters compound. Ansari (pop. 9,552) Bab al-Jabiyah (pop. 3,697) Bab Sreijeh (pop. 5,612) Baramkeh (pop. 14,969) Al-Hijaz (pop. 5,572) Mujtahid (pop. 3...
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  • murdered by a Baghdadi, in revenge, armed Kurds stormed through al-Darwishiyya and Bab al-Jabiyah in a vain search for Baghdadi scapegoats. When two Baghdadis...
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    Ghuta (redirect from Al-Ghutah)
    resources management in Syria The others being Hawrān, al-Bathaniyya, al-Jawlān, al-Biqāʿ and al-Hūla. Lehrman 1980, p. 190. Grehan 2007, p. 23. Taylor...
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  • Records. The structure cost $40 million to construct and is owned by Shaker al Samman. The restaurant has a 54,000 sq-m dining area, 2,500 sq-m kitchen,...
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    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...
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    weeks. After attacking al-Qadam, al-Bakri's forces swept through the city, capturing the police stations at Bab al-Jabiyah, Bab Musalla and Qanawat. With...
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    2004 census. Al-Qaymariyya was named after the Ayyubid-Kurdish emir Naser ad-Din al-Hussein bin Abdul Aziz al-Qaymari al-Kurdi who built "Al-Qaymariyya...
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  • Al-Zahra al-Jadeeda is a neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. It lies within the Al-Midan municipality, east of the Al-Midan neighbourhood. Damascus governorate...
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    Bab Sharqi (pop. 12,318), al-Wihdah (pop. 29,953), Rawdat al-Midan (pop. 4,887), al-Nidal (pop. 15,588) and Ibn al-Asakir (pop. 4,539). Shaghour al-Juwani...
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    Damascus and is located in the Christian quarter of Damascus, 100 m west of Bab Sharqi. Syriac Catholic Church Catholic Church in Syria Diana Darke, Syria...
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  • Al-Hariqa (Arabic: الحريقة) is a neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. It lies inside the walls of the old city south of the Citadel of Damascus between the...
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  • of the walled city of Damascus, bordering the Bab al-Salam gate to the south and contiguous with the al-Faradis neighborhood to the west. It was built...
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  • also spelled Tadamoun or Tadamun) is a neighborhood and district of the al-Midan municipality of Damascus, Syria. The neighborhood has been active in...
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  • Baramkeh (redirect from Al Baramkeh)
    Districts: Ansari Bab al-Jabiyah Bab Sreijeh Baramkeh Al-Hijaz Mujtahid Qanawat Qabr Atikah Al-Suwayqah...
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  • built around the small al-Asali maqam (shrine), named after Shaykh Ahmad al-Asali al-Khalwati, a local Muslim holy man. The al-Asali shrine was a station...
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    (pop. 42,430) Al-Istiqlal (pop. 1,677) Al-Ma'muniyah (pop. 21,339) Qanawat 58,053 Ansari (pop. 9,552) Bab al-Jabiyah (pop. 3,697) Bab Sreijeh (pop. 5...
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    Districts: Ansari Bab al-Jabiyah Bab Sreijeh Baramkeh Al-Hijaz Mujtahid Qanawat Qabr Atikah Al-Suwayqah...
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    Al-Amara (Arabic: العمارة, romanized: al-‘Amārah), also known as al-Amarah Juwaniyyah (Arabic: العمارة الجوانية, romanized: al-‘Amārah al-Juwwānīyah)...
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  • Abu Jarash (Arabic: أبو جرش) is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004...
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  • Al-Hijaz (Arabic: الحجاز) is a neighborhood and district of the Qanawat municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 5,572 in the 2004 census...
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    East Gate (Bab Sharqi) The Gate of Thomas (Bab Touma) The Jabiya Gate (Bab al-Jabiya) The Gate of Paradise (Bab al-Faradis) The Keisan Gate (Bab Kisan) The...
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