Beit Yashout

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 بَيْت يَاشُوط
Town
Beit Yashout
Beit Yashout
Coordinates: 35°19′1″N 36°7′49″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Latakia
District	Jableh
Subdistrict	Beit Yashout
Elevation	500 m (1,600 ft)
Population  (2004 census)[1]
• Total	6,115
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

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

• Halbakko