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    Yabroud or Yabrud (Arabic: يَبْرُود, romanized: Yabrūd) is a city in Syria, located in the Rif Dimashq (i.e. Damascus' countryside) governorate about...
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    rages near Yabroud". The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon. Retrieved 25 October 2014. "Syrian Army Firmly Controls Rima Farms, Besieges Yabroud in Qalamoun"...
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    Yabroud District (Arabic: منطقة يبرود, romanized: manṭiqat Yabrūd) is a district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria. Administrative centre...
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    hostages. The nuns were moved between different locations and ended up in Yabroud where they were held for three months. Officials from Lebanon negotiated...
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    Subdistrict Saidnaya Subdistrict Rankous Subdistrict Yabroud District (2 sub-districts; population: 48,370) Yabroud Subdistrict Assal al-Ward Subdistrict Al-Zabadani...
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  • three more recruitment offices are reportedly slated to open in Aleppo, Yabroud, and Sayyida Zainab, providing Hezbollah members with the opportunity to...
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  • Al-Sarkha (Bakhah) (category Populated places in Yabroud District)
    or to weep', Arabic: الصرخه or بخعة) is a former Syrian village in the Yabroud District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central...
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    by André Lebois (1915–1978) the only time. Joseph (Dorra-)Haddad 1913 Yabroud, Syria 1979 1970 Nominated by Fouad E. Boustany (1904–1994) the only time...
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  • war and had fought with Hezbollah against Syrian rebels in Qusayr and Yabroud in Syria in 2014. He was married to a daughter of Abu Hasan Salameh, a...
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  • Army, backed by the Shia Lebanese militia Hezbollah, regained control of Yabroud from the rebels in March 2014. In 2016 Lebanese authorities began constructing...
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    Maaraba Maarat Saidnaya Maarounah Manin Rankous Saidnaya Talfita Yabroud District Yabroud Assal al-Ward Bakhah Ras al-Maara An-Nabek District al-Jarajir...
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  • of Yabroud, 80 kilometres north of Damascus, in 1939 during the period of the Mandatory Syrian Republic. After finishing his education in Yabroud, he...
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    Falkehed and the photographer Niclas Hammarström were captured in the city of Yabroud in Syria on 23 November 2013, after a week of doing news work there, by...
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  • Mountains. Nearby localities include Saidnaya and Rankous to the southwest, Yabroud and Maaloula to the northeast, and Assal al-Ward to the northwest. According...
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  • monastery of Mar Takla were kidnapped and taken toward the border town of Yabroud. At the time the kidnappers claimed that they were not abducting the nuns...
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  • Denys Gaith, BC (19 March 1910 in Yabroud, Syria – 22 March 1986) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs in Syria. Denys Gaith...
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    from a Christian monastery in Maaloula. They were held in the town of Yabroud until 9 March 2014, The nuns reported they had not been harassed and could...
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    Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs (united with titular sees Hama and Yabroud) (nominally metropolitan) Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Latakia...
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  • Christian worship as early as AD 33. Church of Sts. Constantine and Helen, Yabroud, Syria, 5th century, Built from Roman temple; Desecrated in 2014 by extremists...
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  • on June 28, 1952, in Yabroud, Syria) is the current archeparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs, Hama and Yabroud. In 1966 Jean-Abdo Arbach...
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    Al-Qutayfah District (4 sub-districts) Al-Tall District (3 sub-districts) Yabroud District (2 sub-districts; a.k.a. Yabrud) Al-Zabadani District (3 sub-districts)...
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  • Yabrud may refer to: Yabroud a city in Syria Yabrud, Ramallah, a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate This disambiguation page...
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  • he acquired his fortune. A Greek Catholic businessman from the city of Yabroud, he obtained a doctorate from the then-Soviet Union in 1979. This was funded...
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    Al-Thawrah الثورة 69,425 Al-Thawrah District Raqqa Governorate Yabroud يبرود 25,891 Yabroud District Rif Dimashq Governorate Zabadani الزبداني 26,285 Zabadani...
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    the summer, and with clear, excellent water. They say its source is at Yabroud." During the Syrian Civil War the town and surrounding area came under...
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    26. Al-Deir 27. Kuezeiba 28. Hitta 29. Korza 1. Jibaa 2. Ein Qinya 3. Yabroud 4. Deir Nitham 5. Um Saffa 6. Burham 7. Al-Nabi Saleh 8. Shibteen 9. Khirbat...
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    Mariam Mikhaïl Faransis is a Syrian scholar, author and writer, born in Yabroud in 1950. Professor of Stylistics, at the rank of Professor, at the Lebanese...
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  • memorized the entire Quran." Originally from the Palestinian West Bank town of Yabroud, Abu Anas obtained an Islamic studies degree at the Islamic University...
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  • important Christian centers are located, such as the towns of Maarounah and Yabroud, as well as the Cherubim Convent near Saidnaya. According to their official...
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  • Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs (united with titular sees Hama and Yabroud) (nominally metropolitan) Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Latakia...
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