Beit Yashout
Beit Yashout بَيْت يَاشُوط | |
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35°19′1″N 36°7′49″E / 35.31694°N 36.13028°E / 35.31694; 36.13028 | |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | Latakia |
District | Jableh |
Subdistrict | Beit Yashout |
Elevation | 500 m (1,600 ft) |
Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 6,115 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Beit Yashout (Arabic: بَيْت يَاشُوط, romanized: Bayt Yāšūṭ) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District of the Latakia Governorate, and located south of Latakia. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Sharqiyah to the west and Daliyah to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Yashout had a population of 6,115 in the 2004 census.[1] The town is located in the An-Nusayriyah Mountains at an elevation of around 500 m (1,700 ft).
Beit Yashout is one of the villages inhabited by the Alawite Hadadeen clan, to which former first lady Aniseh Makhluf belonged.[2] However, the village was a traditional home of the Bani Ali clan, also Alawite.[3] Beit Yashout is the hometown of Muhammad al-Khuli, a prominent military official in Baathist governments in the 1960s and throughout former president Hafez al-Assad's time in office (1970–2000).[4]
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References
Bibliography
- Batatu, Hanna (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691002541.
- Antoun, Richard T. (1991). Syria: Society, Culture, and Polity. SUNY Press. ISBN 0791407136.
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