Yalda, Sirie
Yalda (Arabic: يلدا, an aa spelled Yelda) is a toun in soothren Sirie, admeenistratively pairt o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate, locatit on the soothren ootskirts o Damascus tae the wast o the Yarmouk Camp. Nearbi localities include al-Hajar al-Aswad, Jaramana, Sayyidah Zaynab, al-Sabinah an Babbila. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, Yalda haed a population o 28,384 in the 2004 census.[1] The toun is the admeenistrative centre o the Babbila nahiyah consistin o 13 touns an veelages wi a combined population o 341625 an aw.[1]
Yalda يلدا | |
|---|---|
Veelage | |
  Yalda | |
| Coordinates: 33°27′46″N 36°19′18″E / 33.46278°N 36.32167°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Rif Dimashq Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Markaz Rif Dimashq |
| Nahiyah | Babbila |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
| • Total | 28,384 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
History
eeditThe toun haes auncient ruins includin foondations o hewn stane an Corinthian columns o basalt.[2]
Yalda wis visitit bi Sirie geografer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13t-century, durin Ayyubid rule. He notit that it wis "a veelage lyin some 3 miles frae Damascus. The feenal n is sometimes left oot, an the name pronooncit Yalda."[3]
References
eedit- ↑ a b c General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2019-12-15 at the Wayback Machine. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Govrenorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ Porter, 1870, p. 157.
- ↑ le Strange, 1890, p. 552.
Bibliografie
eedit- Porter, Josias Leslie (1870). Five years in Damascus. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|1=(help) - le Strange, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee o the Palestine Exploration Fund.