Al-Hajar al-Aswad, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 20 relations: ARA News, Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015), Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria), Damascus, Darayya District, Districts of Syria, Eastern European Summer Time, Eastern European Time, Free Syrian Army, Governorates of Syria, Islamic State, List of cities in Syria, Nahiyah, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria, Syrian Army, Syrian civil war, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Territory of the Islamic State, Yarmouk Camp.

2. Populated places in Darayya District

ARA News

ARA News (ʾĀrā Niyūz) was an online news service focused on the consequences of war in Syria and Iraq.

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Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015)

The Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015) broke out in April 2015, during the Syrian Civil War, when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant stormed the rebel-held Yarmouk Camp.

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Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) (المكتب المركزي للإحصاء) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in the Syrian Arab Republic.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam. Al-Hajar al-Aswad and Damascus are cities in Syria.

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Darayya District

Darayya District (manṭiqat Dārayyā) is a district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria.

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Districts of Syria

The 14 governorates of Syria, or muhafazat (sing. muhafazah), are divided into 65 districts, or manatiq (sing. mintaqah), including the city of Damascus.

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Eastern European Summer Time

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Free Syrian Army

The Free Syrian Army (FSA; al-jaysh as-Sūrī al-ḥur) is a big-tent coalition of decentralized Syrian opposition rebel groups in the Syrian civil war founded on 29 July 2011 by Colonel Riad al-Asaad and six officers who defected from the Syrian Armed Forces.

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Governorates of Syria

Syria is a unitary state, but for administrative purposes, it is divided into fourteen governorates, also called provinces or counties in English (Arabic muḥāfaẓāt, singular muḥāfaẓah).

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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List of cities in Syria

The country of Syria is administratively subdivided into 14 governorates, which are sub-divided into 65 districts, which are further divided into 284 sub-districts.

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Nahiyah

A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.

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Rif Dimashq Governorate

Rif Dimashq Governorate (محافظة ريف دمشق,, lit. "Damascus Countryside Governorate") is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. Al-Hajar al-Aswad and Rif Dimashq Governorate are rif Dimashq geography stubs.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Syrian Army

The Syrian Army (SyA or SA), officially the Syrian Arab Army (SyAA or SAA) (al-Jayš al-ʿArabī as-Sūrī), is the land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces.

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Syrian civil war

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors.

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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (also known as SOHR; المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان), founded in May 2006, is a United Kingdom-based information office whose stated aim is to document human rights abuses in Syria; since 2011 it has focused on the Syrian Civil War.

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Territory of the Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS) had its core in Iraq and Syria from 2013 to 2017 and 2019 respectively, where the proto-state controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory, mainly in the Mesopotamian region.

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Yarmouk Camp

Yarmouk (ٱلْيَرْمُوك) is a district of the city of Damascus, populated by Palestinians.

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See also

Populated places in Darayya District

• Al-Hajar al-Aswad
• Ashrafiyat Sahnaya
• Darayya
• Muadamiyat al-Sham
• Sahnaya

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hajar_al-Aswad

Also known as Al Hajar Al Aswad, Hajar al-Aswad, Syria, History of Al-Hajar al-Aswad.