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Beit Sawa

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official_name	Beit Sawa
other_name	Bayt Sawa
native_name	بيت سوا
settlement_type	Village
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subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	Rif Dimashq Governorate
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Markaz Rif Dimashq
subdivision_type3	Nahiya
subdivision_name3	Kafr Batna
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unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2004
population_total	6,249
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timezone	EET
utc_offset	+3
timezone_DST	EEST
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Beit Sawa (; also spelled Bayt Sawa) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located just east of Damascus. Nearby localities include Hammurah and Saqba to the south, Arbin to the west, Mesraba and Douma to the north. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Beit Sawa had a population of 6,249 in the 2004 census.

History

According to historian Irfan Shahid, who specializes in Byzantine history, it is possible that Beit Sawa was the site of the Damascene monastery of Sawa al-Haykal. "Haykal" refers to a religious building, such as a temple or monastery, where refugees and other struggling people could find safety.

The village was referenced in a verse by Umayyad-era poet Ubayd Allah ibn Qays al-Ruqayyat. Beit Sawa was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the 1220s, noting that Beit Sawa was "a village of Damascus."

In the late 18th-century, the farmlands of Beit Sawa were part of the principal religious endowment (waqf) of the ashraf families in the northern Syrian city of Hama. The endowment fund belonged to Abd al-Qadir Kaylani, a local scholar and businessman from Hama who died in 1744.

During the current Syrian uprising that began in 2011, Beit Sawa and the nearby Hammurah fields, experienced intermittent shelling by Syrian Army for three days between June 30 to July 2, 2012.

On 7 March 2018, the Syrian army captured Beit Sawa.

References

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References

[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB03-5-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004] {{webarchive. link. (2012-12-20 . [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)). Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. {{in lang. ar
Shahid, 2002, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pfwAG3-rpzcC&pg=PA286 286]
Shahid, 2002, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pfwAG3-rpzcC&pg=PA287 287]. Map of Beit Sawa found on p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pfwAG3-rpzcC&pg=PA441 441]
le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/415/mode/1up 415]
Reilly, 2002, p. 36.
[http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/02/224046.html Saudi Arabia calls for decisive measures on Syria as NATO pleads for ‘political’ solution] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-09-29 . ''[[Al Arabiya]]''. 2012-07-02.)
(7 March 2018). "Breaking: Syrian Army seizes full control of imperative rebel town in east Damascus". [[Al-Masdar News]].

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