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Baramkeh (Arabic: البرامكة), named after Barmakids, is a neighborhood and district of the Qanawat municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 14,969 in the 2004 census. [1] The neighborhood was founded during the late 19th century, during Ottoman rule. [2] A military secondary school was established in Baramkeh in 1890s. [3]
Administratively, Damascus Governorate, one of Syria's 14 governorates, is divided into 16 municipalities (Arabic: بلدية, romanized: baladiyah).Every municipal district is managed by an elected mayor, which in turn is divided into 95 districts (Arabic: الحي hayy), [1] each headed by a mayor, and they all participate in the election of the Damascus city council. [2]
Population history of Syria. In 1200, the territories of modern-day Syria had an estimated population of 2.7 million. [12] This number sharply decreased due to the Plague epidemic in 1348–1353, which killed off an estimated third of the Levant's population. By 1937, the population reached an estimated 2,368,000, still considerably lower than ...
Al-Hijaz (Arabic: الحجاز) is a neighborhood and district of the Qanawat municipality of Damascus, Syria.It had a population of 5,572 in the 2004 census. [1] [2] The neighborhood was founded during the early 20th century, during the last years of Ottoman rule in Syria. [3]
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The decision to expand the Israeli population in the Golan Heights comes after Netanyahu's office said Thursday that the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria had “created a vacuum on ...
The 14 governorates of Syria, or muhafazat (sing. muhafazah), are divided into 65 districts, or manatiq (sing. mintaqah), including the city of Damascus. The districts are further divided into 281 subdistricts, or nawahi (sing. nahiya). [1] Each district bears the same name as its district capital.
Israel captured most of the strategic plateau from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, annexing it in 1981. ... -Israel agreed on Sunday to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while ...