Capture of Damascus, the Glossary

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1. 133 relations: Afula, Al-Kiswah, Al-Mansura, Safad, Al-Salihiyah, Damascus, Al-Shaykh Maskin, Al-Shaykh Saad, Anizah, Ar-Ramtha, Arab Kingdom of Syria, Arab Revolt, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Ashrafiyat al-Wadi, Asia Corps, Auda Abu Tayi, Australian Mounted Division, Azraq, Jordan, Bani Sakher, Banias, Barada, Baramkeh, Battle of Haifa (1918), Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub, Battle of Megiddo (1918), Battle of Nablus (1918), Battle of Nazareth, Battle of Samakh, Battle of Sharon, Battle of Tabsor, Battle of Tulkarm, Beit She'an, Bronchopneumonia, Cana, Capture of Jenin, Cemal Mersinli, Cevat Çobanlı, Charge at Irbid, Charge at Kaukab, Charge at Kiswe, Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom), Cholera, Damascus, Damiyah Bridge, Daraa, Deir Khabiyah, Desert Mounted Corps, Djemal Pasha, Dysentery, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Edward Bulfin, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, ... Expand index (83 more) »

2. 1918 in Mandatory Syria
3. 1918 in Ottoman Syria
4. Battles of the Arab Revolt

Afula

Afula (עֲפוּלָה, ʿĂfūlā) is a city in the Northern District of Israel, often known as the "Capital of the Valley" due to its strategic location in the Jezreel Valley.

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Al-Kiswah

Al-Kiswah (الكسوة also spelled Kissoué/Kiswe) is a city in the Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria.

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Al-Mansura, Safad

Al-Mansura (المنصوره) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict.

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Al-Salihiyah, Damascus

Al-Salihiyah (aṣ-Ṣāliḥiyya) is a municipality and neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.

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Al-Shaykh Maskin

Al-Shaykh Maskin (Al-Sheikh Meskīn), also spelled Sheikh Maskīn, Sheikh Miskeen, is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located north of Daraa.

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Al-Shaykh Saad

Al-Shaykh Saad (الشيخ سعد ash-Shaykh Saʿad; also Romanized Sheikh Saad), historically also called Karnaim and Dair Ayyub ("Monastery of Job"), is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located northwest of Daraa on the Jordan–Syria border.

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Anizah

Anizah or Anazah (ʻanizah, Najdi pronunciation) is an Arabian tribe in the Arabian Peninsula, Upper Mesopotamia, and the Levant.

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Ar-Ramtha

Ar-Ramtha (ar-Ramṯā), colloquially transliterated as Ar-Romtha (ar-Rumṯā), is a city situated in the far northwest of Jordan near the border with Syria.

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Arab Kingdom of Syria

The Arab Kingdom of Syria (المملكة العربية السورية) was a self-proclaimed, unrecognized monarchy existing briefly in the territory of historical Syria.

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Arab Revolt

The Arab Revolt (الثورة العربية), also known as the Great Arab Revolt, was an armed uprising by the Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. On the basis of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, exchanged between Henry McMahon of the United Kingdom and Hussein bin Ali of the Kingdom of Hejaz, the rebellion against the ruling Turks was officially initiated at Mecca on 10 June 1916.

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Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Ashrafiyat al-Wadi

Ashrafiyat al-Wadi (أشرفية الوادي) is a village adjacent to the town of Qudsaya and just north of the Mezzeh district of Damascus in Syria.

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Asia Corps

The Asia Corps (German: Asien-Korps or Levantekorps) was a detachment of the German Army, sent to assist the Ottoman Army during World War I.

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Auda Abu Tayi

Auda Abu Tayeh or Awda Abu Tayih (عودة أبو تايه 11 January 1874 – 27 December 1924), nicknamed the Commander of the People or the Desert Falcon, was the Sheikh of a section of the Howeitat or Huwaytat tribe of Bedouin Arabs at the time of the Great Arab Revolt during the First World War.

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Australian Mounted Division

The Australian Mounted Division originally formed as the Imperial Mounted Division in January 1917, was a mounted infantry, light horse and yeomanry division.

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Azraq, Jordan

Azraq (الأزرق meaning "blue") is a small town in Zarqa Governorate in central-eastern Jordan, east of Amman.

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Bani Sakher

The Beni Sakhar confederacy is one of the largest and most influential tribal confederacies in both Lebanon and Jordan.

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Banias

Banias or Banyas (بانياس الحولة; label; Judeo-Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew: פמייס, etc.; Πανεάς) is a site in the Golan Heights near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan.

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Barada

The Barada (بَرَدَىٰ / ALA-LC: Baradā) is the main river of Damascus, the capital city of Syria.

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Baramkeh

Baramkeh (البرامكة), named after Barmakids, is a neighborhood and district of the Qanawat municipality of Damascus, Syria.

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Battle of Haifa (1918)

The Battle of Haifa was fought on 23 September 1918 towards the end of the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September during the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Haifa (1918) are Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub

The Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub was fought on 27 September 1918 at the beginning of the pursuit by the Desert Mounted Corps of the retreating remnants of the Yildirim Army Group towards Damascus during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. After the Battle of Samakh and the Capture of Tiberias, which completed the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's decisive victory in the Battle of Sharon section of the Battle of Megiddo, the Australian Mounted Division attacked and captured a series of rearguard positions. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub are 1918 in Mandatory Syria, Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire and Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom.

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Battle of Megiddo (1918)

The Battle of Megiddo was fought between 19 and 25 September 1918, on the Plain of Sharon, in front of Tulkarm, Tabsor and Arara in the Judean Hills as well as on the Esdralon Plain at Nazareth, Afulah, Beisan, Jenin and Samakh. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Megiddo (1918) are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Battle of Nablus (1918)

The Battle of Nablus took place, together with the Battle of Sharon during the set piece Battle of Megiddo between 19 and 25 September 1918 in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Nablus (1918) are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Battle of Nazareth

The Battle of Nazareth began on 20 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon, which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought during the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Nazareth are Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Battle of Samakh

The Battle of Samakh was fought on 25 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought from 19 to 25 September 1918, in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Samakh are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Battle of Sharon

The Battle of Sharon fought between 19 and 25 September 1918, began the set piece Battle of Megiddo half a day before the Battle of Nablus, in which large formations engaged and responded to movements by the opposition, according to pre-existing plans, in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Sharon are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Battle of Tabsor

The Battle of Tabsor was fought on 19–20 September 1918 beginning the Battle of Sharon, which along with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Tabsor are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Battle of Tulkarm

The Battle of Tulkarm took place on 19 September 1918, beginning of the Battle of Sharon, which along with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Capture of Damascus and Battle of Tulkarm are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Beit She'an

Beit She'an (בֵּית שְׁאָן), also Beth-shean, formerly Beisan (بيسان), is a town in the Northern District of Israel.

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Bronchopneumonia

Bronchopneumonia is a subtype of pneumonia.

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Cana

Cana of Galilee (Κανὰ τῆς Γαλιλαίας; lit) is the location of the Wedding at Cana, at which the miracle of turning water into wine took place in the Gospel of John.

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Capture of Jenin

The Capture of Jenin occurred on 20 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September during the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. During the cavalry phase of the Battle of Sharon carried out by the Desert Mounted Corps, the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Mounted Division attacked and captured the town of Jenin located on the southern edge of the Esdraelon Plain (also known as the Jezreel Valley and the plain of Armageddon) behind the front line in the Judean Hills. Capture of Damascus and capture of Jenin are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Cemal Mersinli

Cemal Mersinli (1875 – October 7, 1941), also known as Mehmed Djemal Pasha, Mersinli Djemal, or Djemal Kuchuk (Küçük Cemal Paşa; meaning the lesser Djemal to distinguish him from the higher-ranking Djemal Pasha) was a general of the Ottoman and Turkish armies and a politician of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.

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Cevat Çobanlı

Cevat Çobanlı (14 September 1870 or 1871 – 13 March 1938) was a military commander of the Ottoman Army, War Minister (Harbiye Nazırı) of the Ottoman Empire and a general of the Turkish Army who was notable for causing major Naval losses to the Allies during their Dardanelles campaign in World War I.

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Charge at Irbid

The Charge at Irbid occurred on 26 September 1918 as a consequence of the victory at the Battle of Megiddo during the subsequent inland pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps to capture Damascus in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. The charge occurred when the 2nd Lancers of the 10th Cavalry Brigade, 4th Cavalry Division, attacked the Ottoman Army garrison defending the town of Irbid. Capture of Damascus and charge at Irbid are Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire and Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom.

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Charge at Kaukab

The Charge at Kaukab took place on 30 September 1918 about south of Damascus during the pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps following the decisive Egyptian Expeditionary Force victory at the Battle of Megiddo and the Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. As the Australian Mounted Division rode along the main road north, which connects the Galilee with Damascus via Quneitra, units of the division charged a Turkish rearguard position located across the main road on the ridge at Kaukab. Capture of Damascus and charge at Kaukab are 1918 in Mandatory Syria, Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire and Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom.

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Charge at Kiswe

The Charge at Kiswe took place on 30 September 1918 about south of Damascus, during the pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps following the decisive Egyptian Expeditionary Force victory at the Battle of Megiddo, the Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub and the Charge at Kaukab during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I. Capture of Damascus and Charge at Kiswe are Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire and Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom.

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Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)

The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) has been the title of the professional head of the British Army since 1964.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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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.

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Damiyah Bridge

The Damiyah Bridge (Bridge of ed-Damieh), known as Prince Muhammad Bridge in Jordan, and as Gesher Adam (Adam Bridge) in Israel, is a historical bridge that crosses the Jordan River and located between the Palestinian territories and the town of Damia in the Balqa Governorate in Jordan.

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Daraa

Daraa (Darʿā, Levantine Arabic:, also Darʿā, Dara’a, Deraa, Dera'a, Dera, Derʿā and Edrei; means "fortress", compare Dura-Europos) is a city in southwestern Syria, located about north of the border with Jordan.

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Deir Khabiyah

Deir Khabiyah (دير خبية) is a Syrian village located in Markaz Rif Dimashq, Rif Dimashq.

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Desert Mounted Corps

The Desert Mounted Corps was an army corps of the British Army during the First World War, of three mounted divisions renamed in August 1917 by General Edmund Allenby, from Desert Column.

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Djemal Pasha

Ahmed Djemal (Ahmed Cemâl Pasha; 6 May 1872 – 21 July 1922), also known as Djemal Pasha, was an Ottoman military leader and one of the Three Pashas that ruled the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Cemal was born in Mytilene, Lesbos.

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Dysentery

Dysentery, historically known as the bloody flux, is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea.

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Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby

Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor.

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Edward Bulfin

General Sir Edward Stanislaus Bulfin (6 November 1862 − 20 August 1939) was a British general during World War I, where he established a reputation as an excellent commander at the brigade, divisional and corps levels.

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Egyptian Expeditionary Force

The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine campaign of the First World War.

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Eighth Army (Ottoman Empire)

The Eighth Army of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Sekizinci Ordu) was one of the field armies of the Ottoman Army.

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Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal I bin al-Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi (فيصل الأول بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ʻAlī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933.

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First Australian Imperial Force

The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during the First World War.

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Fourth Army (Ottoman Empire)

The Fourth Army of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Dördüncü Ordu) was one of the field armies of the Ottoman Army.

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George Barrow (Indian Army officer)

General Sir George de Symons Barrow, (25 October 1864 – 28 December 1959) was a British Indian Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Yeomanry Mounted Division and the 4th Cavalry Division.

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Golan Heights

The Golan Heights (Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or; רמת הגולן), or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau, at the southwest corner of Syria.

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Haritan

Haritan (Ḥuraytān, also spelled Huraytan or Hreitan) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Mount Simeon District of the Aleppo Governorate, just northwest of Aleppo.

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Harry Chauvel

General Sir Henry George Chauvel, (16 April 1865 – 4 March 1945) was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War.

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Hauran

The Hauran (Ḥawrān; also spelled Hawran or Houran) is a region that spans parts of southern Syria and northern Jordan.

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Hejaz railway

The Hejaz railway (also spelled Hedjaz or Hijaz; سِكَّة حَدِيد الحِجَاز or الخَط الحَدِيدِي الحِجَازِي, حجاز دمیریولی, Hicaz Demiryolu) was a narrow-gauge railway (track gauge) that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of modern day Saudi Arabia, with a branch line to Haifa on the Mediterranean Sea.

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Hejaz Railway Station, Damascus

Hejaz railway station (محطة الحجاز, Gare du Hedjaz) is a former main railway station in central Damascus, Syria, close to the Marjeh Square.

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Henry Gullett

Sir Henry Somer Gullett KCMG CB (26 March 1878 – 13 August 1940) was an Australian journalist, military historian and politician.

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Henry Macandrew

Major-General Sir Henry Macandrew, (7 August 1866 – 16 July 1919) was a British Indian Army officer who fought in the Boer War and First World War, rising to command cavalry divisions on the Western Front and in the Sinai and Palestine campaign.

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Homs

Homs (حِمْص / ALA-LC:; Levantine Arabic: حُمْص / Ḥomṣ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa (Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate.

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Hula Valley

The Hula Valley (ʿEmeq haḤūlā; Buḥayrat al-Ḥūla) is an agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water that used to be Lake Hula before it was drained.

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Izra

Izraʾ (إِزْرَع) is a town in the Daraa Governorate of Syria, to the north of the city of Daraa.

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Jisr el-Majami

Jisr el-Majami or Jisr al-Mujamieh (Meeting Bridge or "The bridge of the place of assembling", and גֶּשֶׁר, Gesher, lit. "Bridge") is an ancient stone bridge, possibly of Roman origin, over the Jordan River on the border between Israel and Jordan.

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Kafr Kanna

Kafr Kanna (كفر كنا, Kafr Kanā; כַּפְר כַּנָּא) is an Arab town in the Galilee, part of the Northern District of Israel.

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Kafr Sousa

Kafar Souseh (Kafr Sūsah) is a municipality and neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, located in the southwestern part of the capital.

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Kaza

A kaza (قضا, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

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Khiyarat Dannun

Khiyarat Dannun (خيارة دنون, also spelled Khiara) is a village in the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria south of Damascus.

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Kingdom of Hejaz

The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz (المملكة الحجازية الهاشمية, Al-Mamlakah al-Ḥijāziyyah Al-Hāshimiyyah) was a state in the Hejaz region of Western Asia that included the western portion of the Arabian Peninsula that was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty.

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Lajjun

Lajjun (اللجّون, al-Lajjūn) was a large Palestinian Arab village located northwest of Jenin and south of the remains of the biblical city of Megiddo.

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Line of communication

A line of communication (or communications) is the route that connects an operating military unit with its supply base.

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Magdala

Magdala (Tower; Migdál; Magdalá) was an ancient Jewish city on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, north of Tiberias.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Mezzeh

Al Mazzeh (al-Mazzah, also transcribed as al-Mazzah, el-Mazze, etc.) is a municipality in Damascus, Syria, due west of Kafr Sousa.

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Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 30 October 1914 and 30 October 1918.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 (1881 – 10 November 1938), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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Muzayrib

Muzayrib (مُزَيْرِيب, also spelled Mzerib, Mzeireb, Mzereeb, Mezereeb or al-Mezereeb) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located northwest of Daraa on the Jordan–Syria border.

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Nuri al-Said

Nuri Pasha al-Said CH (نوري السعيد; December 1888 – 15 July 1958) was an Iraqi politician during the Mandatory Iraq and the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq.

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Nuri bin Hazaa Al Shalaan

Nuri bin Hazaa Al Shalaan (Nuri ibn Hazaa as-Shaalan; 1847–1942) was the chieftain of Ruwallah tribe settled in northern Arabia and the Syrian Desert.

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Oberst

Oberst is a senior field officer rank in several German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to Colonel.

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Otto Liman von Sanders

Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders (17 February 1855 – 22 August 1929) was an Imperial German Army general who served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army during the First World War.

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Pharpar

Pharpar (or Pharphar in the Douay–Rheims Bible) is a biblical river in Syria.

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Phlebotomus

Phlebotomus is a genus of "sand flies" in the Diptera family Psychodidae.

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Picket (military)

A picket (archaically, picquet) is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an enemy advance.

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Poleg

Poleg (Naḥal Poleg) is a stream in the Sharon plain in Israel that empties into the Mediterranean Sea between Netanya and the Wingate Institute.

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Pursuit to Haritan

The Pursuit to Haritan occurred between 29 September and 26 October 1918 when the XXI Corps and Desert Mounted Corps of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) pursued the retreating remnants of the Yildirim Army Group advanced north from Damascus after that city was captured on 1 October during the final weeks of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Capture of Damascus and Pursuit to Haritan are 1918 in Mandatory Syria, 1918 in Ottoman Syria, Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving France, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Qadam

Qadam (al-Qadam) is a municipality and a neighborhood in the southern part of Damascus, Syria, due west of Yarmouk Camp.

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Quneitra

Quneitra (also Al Qunaytirah, Qunaitira, or Kuneitra; ٱلْقُنَيْطِرَة or ٱلْقُنَيطْرَة, al-Qunayṭrah or al-Qunayṭirah) is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria.

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Riyaq

Rayaq - Haouch Hala (رياق), also romanized Rayak, is a Lebanese town in the Beqaa Governorate near the city of Zahlé.

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RML 2.5-inch mountain gun

The Ordnance RML 2.5-inch mountain gun was a British rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun of the late 19th century designed to be broken down into four loads for carrying by man or mule.

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Ruwallah

The Ruwallah (الرولة, Rwala Arabic ir-Rwāle, singular Ruweili/Ruwaili) are a large Arab tribe of the northern Arabian Peninsula and Syrian Desert, including Jordan.

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Sa'sa', Syria

Sasa (سعسع, also spelled Saasaa) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus near the Golan Heights (Quneitra Governorate).

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Safed

Safed (also known as Tzfat; צְפַת, Ṣəfaṯ; صفد, Ṣafad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel.

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Sapper

A sapper, also called a combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, preparing field defenses, and road and airfield construction and repair.

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Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee (יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel.

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Second Battle of Amman

The Second Battle of Amman was fought on 25 September 1918 during the Third Transjordan attack as part of the Battle of Nablus which together with the main Battle of Sharon form the major set piece offensive known as the Battle of Megiddo of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I. After cutting the road from Nablus to Es Salt on 22 September Chaytor's Force captured the bridge over the Jordan River at Jisr ed Damieh while units of the Seventh Army and remnants of the Eighth Army were still in retreating towards the bridge from the Judean Hills. Capture of Damascus and Second Battle of Amman are 1918 in Ottoman Syria, Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Seventh Army (Ottoman Empire)

The Ottoman Seventh Army was a large military formation of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Sharif of Mecca

The Sharif of Mecca (Sharīf Makkah) or Hejaz (Sharīf al-Ḥijāz) was the title of the leader of the Sharifate of Mecca, traditional steward of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the surrounding Hejaz.

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Sharifian Army

The Sharifian Army (الجيش الشريفي), also known as the Arab Army (الجيش العربي), or the Hejazi Army (الجيش الحجازي) was the military force behind the Arab Revolt which was a part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. Sharif Hussein Ibn Ali of the Kingdom of Hejaz, who was proclaimed "Sultan of the Arabs" in 1916, led the Sharifian Army in a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire with the ultimate goal of uniting the Arab people under an independent government.

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Sinai and Palestine campaign

The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918. Capture of Damascus and Sinai and Palestine campaign are 1918 in Mandatory Syria, 1918 in Ottoman Syria and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet

Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.

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Spanish flu

The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.

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Sykes–Picot Agreement

The Sykes–Picot Agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.

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T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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Talal of Jordan

Talal bin Abdullah (translit; 26 February 1909 – 7 July 1972) was King of Jordan from the assassination of his father, King Abdullah I, on 20 July 1951 until his forced abdication on 11 August 1952.

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Third Transjordan attack

The Third Transjordan attack by Chaytor's Force, part of the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), took place between 21 and 25 September 1918, against the Ottoman Empire's Fourth Army and other Yildirim Army Group units. Capture of Damascus and Third Transjordan attack are 1918 in Ottoman Syria, Battles of World War I involving Australia, Battles of World War I involving British India, Battles of World War I involving Germany, Battles of World War I involving New Zealand, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom and Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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XX Corps (United Kingdom)

The XX Corps was an army corps of the British Army during World War I.

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XXI Corps (United Kingdom)

The XXI Corps was an Army Corps of the British Army during World War I. The Corps was formed in Palestine in August 1917 under the command of Lieutenant General Edward Bulfin.

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Yildirim Army Group

The Yildirim Army Group or Thunderbolt Army Group of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Yıldırım Ordular Grubu) or Army Group F (German: Heeresgruppe F) was an Army Group of the Ottoman Army during World War I. While being an Ottoman unit, it also contained the German Asia Corps.

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Zureiqiya

Zureiqiya (الزريقية), is a Syrian village located in Markaz Rif Dimashq District, Rif Dimashq.

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10th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)

The 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade (later numbered as the 6th Mounted Brigade) was a yeomanry brigade of the British Army, formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908.

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10th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)

The 10th Light Horse Regiment is a "mounted infantry" regiment of the Australian Army Reserve, raised in Western Australia (WA).

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11th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)

The London Mounted Brigade (later numbered as the 8th Mounted Brigade) was a yeomanry brigade of the British Army, formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908.

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11th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)

The 11th Light Horse Regiment was a mounted infantry regiment of the Australian Army during the First World War.

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12th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)

The North Midland Mounted Brigade (later numbered as the 22nd Mounted Brigade) was a yeomanry brigade of the British Army, formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908.

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12th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)

The 12th Light Horse Regiment was a mounted unit of the Australian Army.

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13th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)

The 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade (later numbered as the 5th Mounted Brigade) was a yeomanry brigade of the British Army, formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908.

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14th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)

The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade (later numbered as the 7th Mounted Brigade) was a yeomanry brigade of the British Army, formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908.

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15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade

The 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade was a brigade-sized formation that served alongside British Empire forces in the Sinai and Palestine campaign, during World War I. Originally called the Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade it was formed from Imperial Service Troops provided by the Indian princely states of Jodhpur, Hyderabad, Mysore, and Patiala which each provided a regiment of lancers.

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21st Horse (Central India Horse)

The Central India Horse (formerly the 21st King George V's Own Horse, also known as Beatson's Horse) was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army and is presently part of the Indian Army Armoured Corps.

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3rd (Lahore) Division

The 3rd (Lahore) Division was an infantry division of the Indian Army and before 1895, the Bengal Army, first organised in 1852.

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3rd Light Horse Brigade

The 3rd Light Horse Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), which served in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. The brigade was initially formed as a part-time militia formation in the early 1900s in Victoria.

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4th Cavalry Division (India)

The 1st Mounted Division was a cavalry division that served as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine in World War I. It was formed in April 1918 when the Yeomanry Mounted Division was merged with elements of the 1st Indian Cavalry Division withdrawn from the Western Front.

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4th Horse (Hodson's Horse)

4th Horse (Hodson's Horse) is a part of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army, which had its beginnings as an irregular cavalry regiment during the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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4th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)

The 4th Light Horse Regiment was a mounted infantry regiment of the Australian Army during the First World War.

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5th Cavalry Division (India)

The 2nd Mounted Division was a cavalry division that served as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine in World War I. It was formed in April 1918 when three brigades already in Palestine were merged with elements of the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division withdrawn from the Western Front.

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7th (Meerut) Division

The 7th (Meerut) Division was an infantry division of the Indian Army and before 1895, the Bengal Army, that saw active service during World War I.

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8th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)

The 8th Light Horse Regiment was a mounted rifles regiment of the Australian Army during the First World War.

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See also

1918 in Mandatory Syria

• Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub
• Capture of Damascus
• Charge at Kaukab
• Pursuit to Haritan
• Sinai and Palestine campaign

1918 in Ottoman Syria

• 1918 Anglo-French Modus Vivendi
• 1918 Clemenceau–Lloyd George Agreement (Middle East)
• Battle of Aleppo (1918)
• Capture of Damascus
• Capture of Jisr ed Damieh
• Charge at Haritan
• First Battle of Amman
• First Battle of the Jordan
• Haj Fadel Government
• Pursuit to Haritan
• Second Battle of Amman
• Sinai and Palestine campaign
• Tafas massacre
• Third Transjordan attack

Battles of the Arab Revolt

• Battle of Aleppo (1918)
• Battle of Aqaba
• Battle of Mecca (1916)
• Battle of Taif (1916)
• Battle of Wadi Musa
• Campaigns of the Arab Revolt
• Capture of Damascus
• Capture of Wejh
• Capture of Yanbu
• Siege of Medina

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Damascus

Also known as Capture of Damascus (1918).

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