Beit Yashout (Arabic: بَيْت يَاشُوط, romanized: Bayt Yāshūṭ) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District of the Latakia Governorate, and located south of Latakia. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Sharqiyah to the west and Daliyah to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Yashout had a population of 6,115 in the 2004 census.[1] The town is located in the An-Nusayriyah Mountains at an elevation of around 500 m (1,700 ft).
Beit Yashout
بَيْت يَاشُوط | |
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 Beit Yashout | |
  Beit Yashout | |
| Coordinates: 35°19′1″N 36°7′49″E / 35.31694°N 36.13028°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Latakia |
| District | Jableh |
| Subdistrict | Beit Yashout |
| Elevation | 500 m (1,600 ft) |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 6,115 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Beit Yashout is one of the villages inhabited by the Alawite Hadadin tribal confederation, to which former first lady Aniseh Makhluf belonged.[2] Specifically, the village was the traditional home of the Haddadin's Bani Ali clan.[3] Beit Yashout is the hometown of Muhammad al-Khuli, a prominent military official in Baathist governments in the 1960s and throughout former president Hafez al-Assad's time in office (1970–2000).[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Batatu, p. 224.
- ^ Antoun, p. 60.
- ^ Batatu, p. 219.
Bibliography
edit- Batatu, Hanna (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691002541.
- Antoun, Richard T. (1991). Syria: Society, Culture, and Polity. SUNY Press. ISBN 0791407136.