Al-Janudiyah ( ar, ٱلْجَانُودِيَّة, al-Jānūdīyah; also spelled al-Janoudiya, el-Janudieh, al-Janoodiya) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located northwest of Idlib along the western banks on the Orontes River in

Zawiya Mountain Mount Zāwiya ( ar, جبل الزاوية, Jabal az-Zāwiyah) or Mount Rīḥā ( ar, جبل ريحا, Jabal Rīḥā) (also in medieval times: Banī-ʻUlaym Mountain ( ar, جبل بني عليم, Jabal Banī-ʻUlaym) is a highland region in Idli ...

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''. Published in ''Stuff New Zealand''. 2011-09-15. Nearby localities include Shughur Fawqani to the southwest,

Jisr al-Shughur Jisr ash-Shughūr ( ar, جِسْرُ ٱلشُّغُورِ, jisr aš-šuġūr, , also rendered as ''Jisser ash-Shughour'' and other spellings), known in antiquity as Seleucobelus ( el, Σελευκόβηλος, translit=Seleukóbēlos), is a city in ...

10 kilometers to the south, Bishlamun to the southeast, Kafr Dibbin to the northeast, Yacoubiyah and al-Qunaya to the north, and Maland to the northwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Janudiyah had a population of 5,295 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Idlib Governorate. The town is also the administrative center of the Al-Janudiyah ''

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

'' which consists of 13 localities with a combined population of 19,642. The town's inhabitants are predominantly Arab Sunni Muslims.Syria rebels tighten noose around key Idlib city
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''. Originally published by '' Agence France-Presse''. 2013-02-05. Al-Janudiya contains ancient pottery resembling that of the Amuq region. The geology of the site is marked by soft marl and

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Syrian civil war

During a Syrian Army operation against opposition rebels in Jisr al-Shughur, on 15 June 2011, al-Janudiyah was surrounded by Syrian troops. On 5 September, after clashing with army deserters fleeing towards the nearby border with Turkey, armor-backed Syrian troops entered al-Janudiyah, according to witnesses. Later, on 15 September, a boy was reportedly killed by security forces during an anti-government demonstration in the town, according to opposition activists. Clashes in al-Janudiyah on 11 March left three Syrian Army soldiers and one civilian dead according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On 1 April a Syrian Army convoy was assaulted by defectors resulting in the deaths of four soldiers and the injuring of eleven others.Wrap-Up 4-Syria's "friends" try to twist screw on Assad
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''. 2012-04-01. In the first days of February 2013, rebels captured al-Janudiyah and nearby Yakubiyah.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Janudiyah Populated places in Jisr al-Shughur District Towns in Syria