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Al-Ghariyah
Town in Suwayda, Syria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Al-Ghariyah (Arabic: الغارية) or Gheryeh is a town in Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. The town is the administrative center of the Ghariyah Nahiya. The town has a population of 3,808 as per the 2004 census.[1] It is located 6 km (3.7 mi) north of the Jordan border.[2] The towns population is predominantly composed of Druze people.[3]
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In 1816, the English traveler James Silk Buckingham visited Gheryeh and wrote that its population numbered about fifty families, of whom around twenty were Greek Christians who had resettled there after being forced to leave the village of Debeen by Arabs. He added that the inhabitants were still vulnerable to pillage anyway.[4]
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