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unusual facts about Homs, Syria



6th of October

Yom Kippur War, aka 6th of October war, a war between Israel and allied Egypt and Syria

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

On 26 October 2005, a US warplane struck a suspected insurgent safehouse near the Syrian border in an attempt to kill al-Baghdadi.

Al-Bassel High School for Outstanding Students

The Ministry of Education created a school in each province, dedicated for high achieving students; each school includes middle and upper levels, starting with the academic year (1998–1999) according to specific criteria for admission.

Al-Khalidiya

Khanik or al-Khalidiya, the easternmost settlement of Syria

Anthony Legge

He worked on the animal remains from Nahal Oren, and from Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria, which was to become a lifelong project.

Antiochus III the Great

The young king, under the baneful influence of the minister Hermeias, headed an attack on Ptolemaic Syria instead of going in person to face the rebels.

Armenia Fund

All-Armenian Fund through its 25 affiliate organizations has presence in 22 countries around the world: United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, and Australia.

Atiq Mosque, Awjila

The Arabs launched a campaign against the Byzantine Empire soon after Muhammad died in 632, quickly conquering Syria, Persia and Egypt.

Aulus Gabinius

During Gabinius' absence in Egypt, Syria had been devastated by robbers, and Alexander, son of Aristobulus, had again taken up arms with the object of depriving Hyrcanus II of the high-priesthood.

Battle of Bosra

While Khalid was clearing the region of Eastern Syria, Abu Ubaidah came to know that he would come under Khalid's command upon the latter's arrival.

Battle of La Forbie

The Battle of La Forbie, also known as the Battle of Harbiyah, was fought October 17, 1244 – October 18, 1244 between the allied armies (drawn from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the crusading orders, the breakaway Ayyubids of Damascus, Homs and Kerak) and the Egyptian army of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub, reinforced with Khwarezmian mercenaries.

Beit Saber

Medieval Muslim historian Abu'l Fida mentioned Beit Saber in the late 14th-century, during Mamluk rule in Syria.

Boutros Khawand

It is widely believed that he is still alive in one of the Syrian jails, most probably in Mezzeh prison or in the "Sab' Bahrat" (Seven Seas) prison (controlled by the Syrian Air Force intelligence service) in Damascus although some reports stated that he was later transferred to Tadmor prison.

Buddhism and Gnosticism

In the 3rd century, the Syrian writer and Christian Gnostic theologian Bar Daisan described his exchanges with the religious missions of holy men from India (Greek: Σαρμαναίοι, Sramanas), passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor.

Buddhist influences on Christianity

There were some contacts between Gnostics and Indians, e.g. Syrian gnostic theologian Bar Daisan describes in the 3rd century his exchanges with missions of holy men from India (Greek: Σαρμαναίοι, Sramanas), passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor.

Communist Action Organization in Lebanon

Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process,no that was no Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 67.

Covenant of Umar

Pact of Umar, a treaty signed between the Muslims and Christians in Syria or al-Jazira during the time of Caliph Umar

Denys Johnson-Davies

Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

Deucalion

took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij (northern Syria), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

DOX BOX

DOX BOX, which is annual and runs in 3 Syrian cities, Damascus, Homs and Tartus, is organised by two Syrian filmmakers, Diana El Jeiroudi and Orwa Nyrabia, among others.

Faysh Khabur

The village was targeted again during the first Kurdish rebellion by the Sindi Kurdish tribe first and later by the Iraqi Army, this forced the inhabitants to seek refuge in Khanik, another Assyrian village across the border in Syria, until 1975.

Gasr Bu Hadi

By 1 August the only Tripolitanian towns still held by the Italians were Homs, Misrata Marina, Tagiura and Tripoli itself, where there were 40,000 troops to man the machine gun nests and the new wall circling the outer suburbs.

Haddam

Abdul Halim Khaddam, former foreign minister, vice president and for a few days interim president of Syria

Hermeias

Hermeias (in Greek Eρμειας or Eρμιας; died 220 BC) was a Carian by birth, who had raised himself to be the favourite and chief minister of Seleucus III Ceraunus (225–223 BC), and was left at the head of affairs in Syria by that monarch when he set out on the expedition across the Taurus Mountains, in the course of which Seleucus met with his death, 223 BC.

Hospital Metropolitano de Santiago

The construction of HOMS was paralyzed for three years due to the country suffering economic difficulties during the PRD government headed by Hipólito Mejía.

Human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War

In a 23 October 2012 statement, Human Rights Watch said that Syrian military denials notwithstanding, HRW had "evidence of ongoing cluster bomb attacks" by Syria’s air force.

Ioudaios

It occurs first in the history books of the Hebrew Bible in 2 Kings 16:6 where Rezin king of Syria drove the "Jews" out of Elath, and earliest among the prophets in Jeremiah 32:12 of "Jews that sat in the court of the prison."

Israel Aharoni

Together with a Syrian guide named Georgius Khalil Tah'an, Aharoni managed to discover a nest containing a female and eleven young in the Aleppo region.

Kaduthuruthy Valiya Palli

Located in Kaduthuruthy, the present Kaduthuruthy St. Mary’s Valiapally is a third building serving the congregation, and is linked to the history of the Knanaya community known as Southists (തെക്കു൦ഭാഗർ) (Knanites(ക്നാനായക്കാര്‍)), who migrated to Kerala under the leadership of Kanai Thommen in AD 345 from East Syria to escape from the severe persecution of Persian emperor Shapor-II.

Kesab

By the efforts of the Armenian community of Paris, Cardinal Krikor Bedros Aghajanian and the Papal representative to Syria and Lebanon Remi Leprert, many parts of Kesab inhabited by Armenians were separated from Turkey and placed within the Syrian boundaries.

Kurds in Syria

In other parts of the country during this period, Kurds became local chiefs and tax farmers in Akkar (Lebanon) and the Qusayr highlands between Antioch and Latakia in northwestern Syria.

Lebanon–Syria relations

This led to further isolation of the Mount Lebanon region from Greater Syria and wider Ottoman rule.

Leo III the Isaurian

Leo III the Isaurian also known as the Syrian (Greek: Λέων Γ΄ ὁ Ἴσαυρος, Leōn III ho Isauros), (c. 685 – 18 June 741) was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741.

Little Syria, Manhattan

The overwhelming majority of the residents were Arabic-speaking Christians, Melkite and Maronite immigrants from present-day Syria and Lebanon who settled in the area in the late 19th century, escaping religious persecution and poverty in their homelands – which were then under control of the Ottoman Empire – and answering the call of American missionaries to escape their difficulties by traveling to New York City.

Marian Mihail

In 2001 he had a short stint as Technical Instructor for the Romanian FA Coaching School, before moving to the Middle East where he has enjoyed successful spells in Syria with Al Qardaha, being named Syrian Football Association Coach of the Year in 2003, and in Saudi Arabia with Al Riyadh, saving the team from relegation in 2004 after taking over in a desperate situation.

Polemon I of Pontus

Zenon encouraged the locals to resist the Roman General Quintus Labienus and King Pacorus I of Parthia, when their armies invaded Syria and Anatolia.

Qarah

Qarah, Syria, a town in the Qalamoun District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate of Syria

Qubbat al-Khazna

Qubbat al-Khazna (Arabic: قبة الخزنة Qubbat al-Khazna), meaning the "Dome of the Treasury", is an old structure, located inside the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria.

Riad Seif

In 1993, he began "building the New Adidas Company in 1993 ... the first of its kind in Syria", after acquiring a franchise for Syria from the Adidas Corporation.

Stefan Heidemann

Co-operation with several archaeological missions especially in Syria among them at the citadels in Aleppo, Damascus and Masyaf, urban sites such as ar-Raqqa, and Kharab Sayyar, but also in Portugal, Mongolia, and Afghanistan Balkh.

Surafend affair

It was only in June 1919 that Allenby was informed by an Australian journalist of the resentment in the Division following his outburst, and he subsequently wrote a glowing tribute to the Australian Light Horse troops, farewelling them and thanking them for their heroic work in Palestine and Syria.

Syria and weapons of mass destruction

Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act, a 2003 act of the 108th United States Congress which asserts that Syria’s acquisition of weapons of mass destruction threatens the security of the Middle East and the national security interests of the United States

Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal

The initial campaigns began in January 1920 when the Arab Kingdom of Syria engaged French forces in what would be called the Franco-Syrian War.

Syrian cuisine

Mehshi is a famous dish served in Syria, it is essentially Kousa or Eggplants stuffed with ground beef, rice and nuts.

Syrian Turks

In the vicinity of Hama and Homs, there are a number of villages which have a majority Turkmen population, including Houla, Aqrab, Talaf and Kafr Ram.

The Syrian Bride

Following the hostilities between Israel and Syria there is now the demilitarised UNDOF zone between occupied Golan and Syria observed by United Nations staff.

Urkish

Urkesh, a city at the base of the Taurus Mountains in what is now northern Syria

Washukanni

Its precise location is unknown, it may be however located under the so-far unexcavated mound of Tell el Fakhariya, near Tell Halaf in Syria, to the east of the Euphrates river.

William MacGregor

In 1884 the ship Syria, with coolies for Fiji, ran ashore about 15 miles from Suva.

Yishuv

However, in 1941 British forces successfully fought Vichy forces for control of Syria and Lebanon, thus removing the threat of invasion from the north, at least as long as German armies in Eastern Europe could be held back by the Red Army and thus unable to easily advance towards the Near East from the north.


see also

Fakhr-al-Din al-Maani Castle

Fakhr-al-Din al-Ma'ani Castle or Palmyra Castle is a castle in the province of Homs, Syria.