Yalda, Syria
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|subdivision_name1 = Rif Dimashq Governorate
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Yalda ({{langx|ar|يلدا|Yaldā}}, also spelled Yelda) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located on the southern outskirts of Damascus to the west of the Yarmouk Camp. Nearby localities include al-Hajar al-Aswad, Jaramana, Sayyidah Zaynab, al-Sabinah and Babbila. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Yalda had a population of 28,384 in the 2004 census.[https://archive.today/20121203023332/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB03-2-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. {{in lang|ar}} The town is also in the Babbila nahiyah consisting of 13 towns and villages with a combined population of 341,625. It is a predominantly Sunni Muslim, the majority of whom are Sufis.{{Cite web |last=Ezzi |first=Mazen |date=November 2020 |title=Post-Reconciliation Rural Damascus: Are Local Communities Still Represented? |url=https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/69175/Mazen%20Ezzi%20-%20Post-Reconciliation%20Rural%20Damascus.PDF?sequence=3&isAllowed=y |access-date=7 February 2025 |website=EUI Middle East Directions |page=17}}
History
The town has ancient ruins including foundations of hewn stone and Corinthian columns of basalt.Porter, 1855, vol 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/fiveyearsindamas02port#page/n19/mode/1up/search/yelda 10]
Yalda was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century, during Ayyubid rule. He noted that it was "a village lying some 3 miles from Damascus. The final n is sometimes left out, and the name pronounced Yalda."le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/552/mode/1up 552]
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book | first1 = Josias Leslie| last1= Porter| title = Five years in Damascus: including an account of the history, topography, and antiquities of that city : with travels and researches in Palmyra, Lebanon, and the Hauran| volume= 2|year = 1855| publisher =John Murray|url=https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsindamas02port}}
- {{cite book|title=Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500|url=https://archive.org/details/palestineundermo00lestuoft |first1=Guy|last1=Strange, le|year=1890|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}
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External links
- [https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4634355,36.3212084,15z google map]
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