Maaloula (Arabic: مَعلُولَا; Western Neo-Aramaic: ܡܥܠܘܠܐ ,מעלולא, romanized: Maʿlūlā) is a town in the Rif Dimashq Governorate in Syria. The town is located...
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The Battle of Maaloula took place during the Syrian Civil War fought in September 2013, when rebel forces attacked the town of Maaloula, a Christian majority...
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spoken by Christian and Muslim Arameans (Syriacs) in only two villages – Maaloula and Jubb'adin, until the Syrian civil war also in Bakhʽa – in the Anti-Lebanon...
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Thecla (section Tomb of Saint Thecla, Maaloula)
Christianity. It is also said that Thecla spent the rest of her life in Maaloula, a village in Syria. There, she became a healer and performed many miracles...
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Maaloula, Ain Tineh, Bakhah, and Jubaadin…", translated quote from the book إلياس أنطون نصر الله في معلولا, p. 45 "Hilfe für das Aramäerdorf Maaloula...
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Maaloula, Ain Tineh, Bakhah, and Jubaadin…“, translated quote from the book إلياس أنطون نصر الله في معلولا, p. 45 "Hilfe für das Aramäerdorf Maaloula...
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Thecla (Mar Taqla) (Arabic: دير مار تقلا) is a Greek Orthodox convent in Maaloula, Syria. It is administered by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch...
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Aramaic alphabet (section Maaloula)
typeset mostly in the standard Hebrew script in scholarly literature. In Maaloula, one of few surviving communities in which a Western Aramaic dialect is...
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this time, fighting started in the area of the government-held town of Maaloula. On 28 November, the Army recaptured Deir Attiyeh, with fighting continuing...
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of Mar Sarkis, now the Gibran Museum, Bsharri Monastery of Mar Sarkis, Maaloula Little Hagia Sophia, Istanbul St. Sarkis Church (disambiguation), includes...
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Most remarkably, Western Neo-Aramaic is still spoken in the village of Maaloula as well as two neighboring villages, 56 kilometres (35 mi) northeast of...
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village of Maaloula, We received a heartbreaking video from Bacha‘a, the Aramaic neighboring village of Maaloula. Rebels attacked Maaloula from there...
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al-Sawarnah Jubb al-Uthman Jubb al-Safa Junaynah Jadduah Shamaliyah Kharsan Maaloula Muwaylah al-Sirwana Maar Shamali Qanater Qasr Ali Qasr Ibn Wardan Rabda...
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users to make this table complete. Al-Sarkha (Bakhah), Jubb'adin, and Maaloula - the three remaining Syrian villages that still speak Western Aramaic...
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Western Neo-Aramaic is additionally spoken in three villages in Syria: Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakhah. Among diaspora communities based in the Levant,...
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spoken by the Christian and Muslim Arameans (Syriacs) in the towns of Maaloula and nearby Jubb'adin in Syria. Other modern varieties include Neo-Aramaic...
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Sabaa Biyar Dumeir Al-Nashabiyah Al-Ghizlaniyah Harran al-Awamid Jayroud Maaloula Al-Ruhaybah Ras al-Khashufah Manin Saidnaya Rankous Assal al-Ward Deir...
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Arameans (Syriacs) in the Anti-Lebanon mountains. The small communities of Maaloula and Jubb'adin speak Western Neo-Aramaic and are not to be confused with...
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Eastern Christian diaspora. They primarily speak Levantine Arabic, with Maaloula near Damascus being one of the few places where a Western Aramaic dialect...
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but they were unable to read or understand them." quote from the book Maaloula (XIXe-XXIe siècles). Du vieux avec du neuf, p.95 "The west Syriac tradition...
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localities include Saidnaya and Rankous to the southwest, Yabroud and Maaloula to the northeast, and Assal al-Ward to the northwest. According to the...
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le Mutilé) (Deir Mar Yakub), Qara. St. Sergius monastery (Mar Sarkis), Maaloula Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian (Deir Mar Musa), Al-Nabek. Monastery...
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speaking groups, such as the Maronites and the Aramean inhabitants of Maaloula and Jubb’adin near Damascus in Syria. The toponym A-ra-mu appears in an...
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Neo-Aramaic, which is still spoken by the Arameans (Syriacs) in the towns of Maaloula and Jubb'adin in Damascus, Syria. During the Late Middle Aramaic period...
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popular resort both for tourists and for visitors from other Syrian cities. Maaloula: a town dominated by speakers of Western Neo-Aramaic. Saidnaya: a city...
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Theotokos Saidnaya Soufanieh Marian apparition in a suburb of Damascus Maaloula, one of the last three places in the world along with Al-Sarkha (Bakhah)...
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al-Sawarnah Jubb al-Uthman Jubb al-Safa Junaynah Jadduah Shamaliyah Kharsan Maaloula Muwaylah al-Sirwana Maar Shamali Qanater Qasr Ali Qasr Ibn Wardan Rabda...
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against various rebel and jihadist groups, notably during the battle of Maaloula where the town, inhabited by Christians (like most of the Eagles including...
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well as with the Assyrian diaspora. Historically the related Arameans of Maaloula and Jubb'adin in Southwestern Syria were sometimes included under the term...
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Monastery, Kferam, Homs St. Elias (Deir Mar Elias), Sednaya Mar Sarkis, Maaloula Syriac Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Kferam, Homs Abadía de Cristo Rey...
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