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Village in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
Yalda (
Arabic : يلدا ,
romanized : Yaldā 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.
[1] The town is also in the Babbila
nahiyah consisting of 13 towns and villages with a combined population of 341,625.
[1]
History The town has ancient ruins including foundations of hewn stone and
Corinthian columns of
basalt .
[2]
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."
[3]
References Bibliography External links
Kiswah Babbila Jaramana Malihah Kafr Batna Arbin
Douma Harasta Sabe Biyar Dumayr Nashabiyeh Ghazlaniyeh Harran al-Awamid
Qutayfah Jayrud Maloula Raheiba
Al-Tall Sednaya Rankous
Yabroud Assal al-Ward
An-Nabek Deir Atiyeh Qara
Al-Zabadani Madaya Serghaya
Qatana Beit Jann Sa'sa
Darayya Sahnaya Hajar al-Aswad
Qudsaya ad-Dimas Ein al-Fijeh
Syria
