Beit Yashout

Beit Yashout
بَيْت يَاشُوط
Town
Beit Yashout
Beit Yashout
Beit Yashout is located in Syria
Beit Yashout
Beit Yashout
Coordinates: 35°19′1″N 36°7′49″E / 35.31694°N 36.13028°E / 35.31694; 36.13028
Country Syria
GovernorateLatakia
DistrictJableh
SubdistrictBeit Yashout
Elevation
500 m (1,600 ft)
Population
 (2004 census)[1]
 • Total
6,115
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

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 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

References

  1. ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ Batatu, p. 224.
  3. ^ Antoun, p. 60.
  4. ^ Batatu, p. 219.

Bibliography

  • 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.