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الأربعاء، 12 مارس 2014

Deir al-Zour city and history

The city of Deir al-Zour in the Euphrates valley, which is the center of the province of Deir al-Zour, which includes 3 areas and 14 hand, and is located to the northeast of the capital Damascus and 450 km. Grew up in a city approaching the rocky edge of the valley of the Euphrates River, which is divided into two branches forming a river island called Hoiqh underlying part of the city, while the bulk is located on the right bank of the river branch.

 The first homes have settled all the archaeological hill called the old monastery and its name came from him

  Zor and type the name of the cane land

. The earliest effect was found in Deir al-Zour comes back to the sixteenth century

 However, we can realize the importance of Deir ez-Zor through its location at the crossroads of the ancient paths of international, first through Aleppo - Baghdad, and the second road to Damascus - Mosul. This shows that this site was worthy of development since the old, especially for incidence on the banks of the Euphrates River

. On the other hand, this city is on a hill not been in it after the exploration or probe to get to know what the depth of the effects, can you tell us about the history of this city, but no doubt it since the eighteenth century became the seat of the nomadic tribes scattered in the desert, and especially the tribes of the goat in maize, fennel and tribes on the island.

Since 1858 the Ottomans made ​​of this place outpost.

  This station has grown to become a well-developed village Bamartha and her social life, as it established a school and a dispensary and a bridge across the Euphrates, allowing traders in Mosul and Mardin, Aleppo and Baghdad, said the benefit of the city's commercial station in the movement. Was organized urban city in 1883 had a population of five thousand and twenty thousand, bringing increased in 1893.

 Today the city has become so full of containing all public buildings and filled the main streets Balamarat residential market and has become the old commercial center, and settled tribal leaders who have left their tents in the desert and Arbanam, many of whom settled in the city, or go to the Arabian Peninsula.

  However it has been exposed to malaria Uadh in 1915. Was it received refugees Armenians fleeing Turkey. Today is the Deir ez-Zor region's largest city and the center became an independent province. Has recently entered modern industries, such as paper factory and the cotton gin and spinning mills, sugar and concrete columns and motorized treadmills and grain silos

 

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