Al-Sukhnah, Syria
Al-Sukhnah
ٱلسُّخْنَة Sikne | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 34°53′12.5″N 38°52′19.5″E / 34.886806°N 38.872083°E | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | Homs |
District | Tadmur |
Subdistrict | Al-Sukhnah |
Elevation | 1,512 ft (460 m) |
Population (2004) | |
• Total | 16,173 |
Al-Sukhnah (
According to
Etymology
Al-Sukhnah means "the Warm" in
History
In 634, following the capture of
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, al-Sukhnah served as an important trade center in the Syrian Desert among the inhabitants of nearby villages and various
Syrian civil war
The town was taken by
After a number of unsuccessful attempts, the
Since the final
Economy
The residents of Sukhnah were linked to the different tribes in the region through various hierarchical economic ties. They paid the levy on their grain harvest to the Sba'a, who in return protected their trade. They also consigned their sheep flocks to the 'Umur and the Hadidiyin. To all these tribes, al-Sukhnah's residents supplied grain, cloth, clothing, and various household items and foodstuffs, while purchasing from them pastoral products for resale to Syria's large cities.[4] Today, al-Sukhnah has become a minor industrial center for natural gas.[15]
References
- ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Boulanger, 1966, p. 357.
- ^ Smith, 1841, p. 174.
- ^ a b c d Mundy and Musallam, 2000, pp. 126–129.
- ^ a b c d e A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert. Admiralty and War Office, Division of Intelligence. January 1917. p. 333.
- ^ Akram, 1970, pp. 321–322.
- ^ le Strange, 1890, p. 539.
- ^ Douwes, 2000, pp. 39-40.
- ^ Douwes, 2000, p. 32.
- ^ "Islamic State at the gates of Palmyra". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ "Syria conflict: IS advances on ancient ruins of Palmyra", BBC News, 2015-05-15, retrieved 2015-05-20
- ^ Syrian Civil War Map, 2017-07-28, retrieved 2017-07-28
- ^ "BREAKING: Syrian Army, allies liberate al-Sukhnah town from ISIS in east Homs". Archived from the original on 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
- ^ Regime forces control the last city controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in Homs province
- ^ Gibb, 1996, p. 231.
Bibliography
- Akram, A. I. (1970). The Sword of Allah, Khalid Bin al-Waleed: His Life and Campaigns. National Publishing House. Archived from the original on 2003-02-17.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Boulanger, Robert (1966). The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran. Hachette.
- Douwes, Dick (2000). The Ottomans in Syria: a history of justice and oppression. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1860640311.
- Gibb, H. A. R. (2003). The Encyclopedia of Islam. BRILL. p. 157. ISBN 9004106332.
- Mundy, Martha; Musallam, Basim (2000), Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-77057-6.
- Smith, Eli; Robinson, Edward (1841), Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838, vol. 3, Crocker and Brewster
- le Strange, Guy (1890), Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500, Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.