Siyannu
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|subdivision_name1 = Latakia
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|subdivision_name2 = Jableh District
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Siyannu ({{langx|ar|سيانو}}) is a Syrian village in Jableh District in Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Siyannu had a population of 4,784 in the 2004 census.{{cite web|title=General Census of Population 2004.|url=https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/syr_pop_2004_sycensus_0.xls |access-date= 2019-10-27}}
History
=Late Bronze=
Siyannu, which was also known as Ušnatu,{{cite book|author1=Wilfred G. E. Watson|author2=Nicolas Wyatt|title=Handbook of Ugaritic Studies|publisher=Brill|year=1999|page=662|isbn=9789004109889}} was part of Ugarit, before having its independence and becoming a border region with Amrit during the reign of the Hittite King Muršili II.{{cite book|author=Trevor Bryce|title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2009|page=658|isbn=9780415394857}}
=Iron Age=
Siyannu/Shianu,{{cite book|author=Lester L. Grabbe|title=Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|year=2007|page=28|isbn=9780567251718}} led by King Adunu Baal, took part in the Battle of Qarqar against the invading Assyrians.{{cite web|url=http://www.esyria.sy/elatakia/index.php?p=stories&category=ruins&filename=200910041350148|title="سيانو".. المملكة التي يعود نسل أهلها إلى سابع أبناء كنعان|website=esyria.sy|language=ar|date=4 October 2009}}
Nahr as-Sinn was also called "Siyannu" which marked the southern borders of Ugarit.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YWQZ6x56dAC&q=Nahr+as+Sinn&pg=PA9|title=The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra|publisher=Eisenbrauns|year=2006|page=9|isbn=9781575060293}}
References
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{{Latakia Governorate|jableh}}
Category:Alawite communities in Syria