Oweishiyeh or Uwaishiyah is a village in al-Bab District in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria.
Oweishiyeh | |
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Coordinates: 36°18′24.34″N 37°35′36.72″E / 36.3067611°N 37.5935333°E | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | Aleppo |
District | al-Bab |
Subdistrict | Tedef |
Population (2004)[1] | 2,218 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Syrian Civil War
editOn 5 February 2017, the Syrian Army captured the village from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[2]
References
edit- ^ "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tedef" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics.
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(help) Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange. - ^ Adra, Zen (5 February 2017). "Exclusive: Syrian Army inches closer to ISIS stronghold in Al-Bab". Al-Masdar News.