Al-Jalaa
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Al-Jalaa
ٱلْجَلَاء | |
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Coordinates: 34°37′55″N 40°49′48″E / 34.632043°N 40.830081°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | Deir ez-Zor |
District | Abu Kamal |
Subdistrict | al-Jalaa |
Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 9,171 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Al-Jalaa (Arabic: ٱلْجَلَاء, romanized: al-Jalāʾ) is a small city in eastern Syria, administratively part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, located along the Euphrates River, south of Deir ez-Zor. Nearby localities include al-Abbas to the west, al-Ramadi and Abu Kamal to the south and Kharayij and Hajin to the north. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Jalaa had a population of 9,171 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") of the Abu Kamal District. The al-Jalaa subdistrict consists of six towns which had a collective population of 29,255 in 2004.[1]
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In the Syrian Civil War the city was occupied by ISIL until the Syrian army captured it on 5 December 2017.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Deir az-Zawr Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ "Breaking: Syrian Army on the cusp of final victory over ISIS in eastern Syria". Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2017-12-06.