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Rablah
Rablah (; also spelled Rableh, Ribla or Ribleh) is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Just east of the border with Lebanon, nearby localities include al-Nizariyah to the southwest, Zita al-Gharbiyah to the northwest, al-Qusayr to the north, Zira'ah to the northeast and Hisyah to the east. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Rableh had a population of 5,328 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Qusayr, Syria
Al-Qusayr (, , ) is a city in western Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate. It is located about south of Homs and is situated in a mountainous area overlooking Syria's border with Lebanon which lies to the southwest. Nearby localities include Rablah and Zira'a to the south, Jandar further to the east, al-Dabaah to the northeast, Arjoun to the northwest and Aqrabiyah to the west. Al-Qusayr has an altitude of . A Muslim majority city with a significant Christian minority, al-Qusayr had a population of 29,818 in 2004 according to the Syrian census. In addition to being capital of the al-Qusayr District, it is also the administrative center of the al-Qusayr ''nahiyah'' ("subdistrict") which consisted of 60 localities with a collective population of 107,470 in 2004. History Al-Qusayr is the closest modern-day city to the ancient walled hilltop city of Qadesh (now the ruins known as '' Tell Nebi Mend'', ( ft)) named for the idol worshipped by the ancients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Qusayr District
Al-Qusayr District () is a district of the Homs Governorate in central Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Al-Qusayr. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 107,470. Sub-districts The district of Al-Qusayr is divided into two sub-districts or nawāḥī (population as of 2004): * Al-Qusayr Subdistrict (ناحية القصير): population 70,965. * Al-Hoz Subdistrict (ناحية الحوز): population 36,505. - formed in 2010 Localities of the sub-district According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the following villages along with the towns of al-Qusayr and Al-Hoz, make up the district of al-Qusayr: * al-Qusayr 29818 / () * al-Hoz 2239 / () *Rablah 5328 / () * al-Ghassaniyah 4509 / () * al-Aqrabiyah (al-Buwaydah al-Gharbiyah) 4326 () * al-Nizariyah 3813 / () * Jusiyah al-Amar 3447 / () * al-Buwaydah al-Sharqiyah 3196 / () * al-Dabaa 3129 / () *Shinshar 3118 / () * Dahiyat al-Majd 3061 / () *Zita al-Gharbiyah 2922 / () *Arjoun A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riblah
The ancient town of Riblah, today a tell covered by a cemetery not far from the town of Ribleh on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon, was in biblical times located on the northern frontier of the land of Canaan. The site lies on the eastern bank of the Orontes river, in a wide and fertile plain, 35 miles north-east of Baalbek and 10 or 12 miles south of the artificial Lake Homs created by the Romans. Brenton translated the place as ''Rablaam'' in his translation of the Septuagint. It was at Riblah that Necho II, pharaoh of Egypt (c. 610 – c. 595 BCE), established his camp after he had routed Josiah's Judahite army at Megiddo in 609 BCE. Soon after this, the son of Josiah, the newly anointed King Jehoahaz, was made prisoner and held at Riblah to prevent him from ruling Judah; he was later taken to Egypt where he died (). A reference in : :''The nations combined against him ehoahaz he was caught in their pit;'' :''They dragged him off with hooks to the land of Egypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zira'ah
Zira'a (, also spelled Zerraa, Zirhagh or Zar'a) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Situated on a hill just east of the Orontes River, nearby localities include Rableh to the immediate southwest, al-Qusayr to the north, Jandar to the northeast and Hisyah to the southeast. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Zira'a had a population of 2,250 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly |
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, the east and southeast, Jordan to Jordan–Syria border, the south, and Israel and Lebanon to Lebanon–Syria border, the southwest. It is a republic under Syrian transitional government, a transitional government and comprises Governorates of Syria, 14 governorates. Damascus is the capital and largest city. With a population of 25 million across an area of , it is the List of countries and dependencies by population, 57th-most populous and List of countries and dependencies by area, 87th-largest country. The name "Syria" historically referred to a Syria (region), wider region. The modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization. Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Targum Jonathan
The Targum Jonathan () is the Aramaic translation of the Nevi'im section of the Hebrew Bible employed in Lower Mesopotamia ("Babylonia"). It is not to be confused with "Targum Pseudo-Jonathan," an Aramaic translation of the Torah. It is often known as "Targum Jonathan" due to a printer's error or perhaps because it is so stylistically similar to the Targum Jerusalem, which is named "Jonathan" to differentiate the two later translations. Origin Like Targum Onkelos, it originated in the synagogue reading of a translation from the Nevi'im, which was part of the weekly lesson. The Talmud attributes its authorship to Jonathan ben Uzziel, a pupil of Hillel the Elder, in Megillah 3a:4. According to this source, it was composed by Jonathan ben Uzziel "from the mouths of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi," implying that it was based on traditions derived from the last prophets. The additional statements that, on this account, the entire land of Israel was shaken and that a voice fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tell (archaeology)
In archaeology, a tell (from , ', 'mound' or 'small hill') is an artificial topographical feature, a mound consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the same site, the refuse of generations of people who built and inhabited them and natural sediment. Tells are most commonly associated with the ancient Near East but are also found elsewhere, such as in Southern Europe, Southern and parts of Central Europe, from Greece and Bulgaria to Hungary and Spain,, see map. and in North Africa. Within the Near East they are concentrated in less arid regions, including Upper Mesopotamia, the Southern Levant, Anatolia and Iran, which had more continuous settlement. Eurasian tells date to the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic and the Bronze and Iron Ages. In the Southern Levant the time of the tells ended with the conquest by Alexander the Great, which ushered in the Hellenistic period with its own, different settlement-building patterns. Many t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Catholic
Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Greece * The Eastern Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (''sui iuris'') particular churches of ... that use the Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite: ** The Albanian Greek Catholic Church ** The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church ** The Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church ** The Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia ** The Greek Byzantine Catholic Church ** The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church ** The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church ** The Macedonian Greek Catholic Church ** The Malta Greek Catholic Church ** The Melkite Greek Catholic Church ** The Romanian Greek Catholic Church ** The Russian Greek Catholic Church ** The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church ** The Slovak Greek Catholic C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Bureau Of Statistics (Syria)
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) () is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in the Syrian Arab Republic. The office is answerable to the office of the Prime Minister and has its main offices in Damascus. The CBS was established in 2005 and is administered by an administrative council headed by the deputy prime minister for economic affairs. After the Syrian government began reconstructing infrastructure in 2011, the bureau began releasing data from 2011 to 2018. References External links * Government of Syria Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ... Government agencies established in 2005 2005 establishments in Syria {{Syria-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisyah
Hisyah (, also spelled Hasya, Hasiyah, Hesa or Hessia) is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located about 35 kilometers south of Homs. Situated on the M5 Highway between Homs and Damascus, nearby localities include al-Qusayr and Rableh to the northwest, Shamsin and Jandar to the north, Dardaghan to the northeast, Sadad to the southeast and Bureij to the south. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hisyah had a population of 5,425 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
