Al-Jalaa
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Not to be confused with Jalaa SC.
For the building, see Al Jalaa Highrise.
Place in Deir ez-Zor, Syria
Al-Jalaa
ٱلْجَلَاء | |
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Al-Jalaa is located in Syria Al-Jalaa Al-Jalaa | |
| Coordinates: 34°37′55′′N 40°49′48′′E / 34.632043°N 40.830081°E / 34.632043; 40.830081 | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | Deir ez-Zor |
| District | Abu Kamal |
| Subdistrict | al-Jalaa |
| Control | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| 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]
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年06月22日. Retrieved 2017年12月06日.
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