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Nerab
Al-Nayrab ( ar, النيرب) is a town in Syria, to the south-east of the city of Aleppo in northern Syria. With the urban development, the village was gradually absorbed by the city of Aleppo thus becoming part of it as a district. Al-Nayrab is also an important archaeological site, having been excavated in 1926–27 by Augustin-Georges Barrois and Bertrand Carrière. Etymology Nayrab or Neyrab is the Syriac word for a flat land or water through the valley. History Salih ibn Ali ibn Abdullah ibn Abbas, the Abbasid governor of Bilad al-Sham ( Syria), built the Bttiyas Palace on the hill of Nayrab. Al-Nayrab was a village southeast of Aleppo, with the urbanization of the city have been included Nayrab. And is not located only 10 kilometers from the city center and the fact that the land was lying established by the French military airport, and after the independence was that the airport expansion to include airport and other civilian and military is known as Nayrab Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neirab Steles
The Neirab steles are two 8th-century BC steles with Aramaic inscriptions found in 1891 in Al-Nayrab (𐤍𐤓𐤁, ''NRB'' in the inscriptions) near Aleppo, Syria. They are currently in the Louvre. They were discovered in 1891 and acquired by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau for the Louvre on behalf of the Commission of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. The steles are made of black basalt, and the inscriptions note that they were funerary steles. The inscriptions are known as KAI 225 (Sin zir Ibni inscription) and KAI 226 (Si Gabbor stele). Discovery On 11 November 1891, Adrien Barthélemy, then dragoman at France's Aleppo consulate, wrote to Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, with information provided to him by the Franciscan priest R.P. Paul de Saint-Aignan (Simoneau) as follows: "Very recently, workers repairing terraces, on a hillock in the village of Nerab near Aleppo, unearthed a stone representing an offering underneath which is a Phoenician inscription. I did not see the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countries Of The World
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
