Beit Sawa
Beit Sawa
بيت سوا Bayt Sawa | |
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Beit Sawa (
Hammurah and Saqba to the south, Arbin to the west, Mesraba and Douma to the north. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Beit Sawa had a population of 6,249 in the 2004 census.[1]
History
According to historian
Irfan Shahid, who specializes in Byzantine history, it is possible that Beit Sawa was the site of the Damascene monastery of Sawa al-Haykal.[2] "Haykal" refers to a religious building,[3] such as a temple or monastery, where refugees and other struggling people could find safety.[2]
The village was referenced in a verse by Umayyad-era poet Ubayd Allah ibn Qays al-Ruqayyat.[2] Beit Sawa was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the 1220s, noting that Beit Sawa was "a village of Damascus."[4]
In the late 18th-century, the farmlands of Beit Sawa were part of the principal religious endowment (
During the current
Syrian uprising that began in 2011, Beit Sawa and the nearby Hammurah fields, experienced intermittent shelling by Syrian Army for three days between June 30 to July 2, 2012.[6]
On 7 March 2018, the Syrian army captured Beit Sawa.[7]
References
- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-12-20 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ a b c Shahid, 2002, p. 287. Map of Beit Sawa found on p. 441
- ^ Shahid, 2002, p. 286
- ^ le Strange, 1890, p. 415
- ^ Reilly, 2002, p. 36.
- ^ Saudi Arabia calls for decisive measures on Syria as NATO pleads for ‘political’ solution Archived 2012-09-29 at the Wayback Machine. Al Arabiya. 2012-07-02.
- ^ "Breaking: Syrian Army seizes full control of imperative rebel town in east Damascus". Al-Masdar News. 7 March 2018. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0884022846.
- 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.
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