Infobox islands name Arwad image name Cours de la forteresse d Arouad.jpg image caption The fortress of Arwad locator map Location map Syria label Arwad alt Arwad is on an island off the Syrian coast. lat decimal form 34.856 long 35.858 position center width smaller 250 float center native name native name link Arabic language nickname location Mediterranean Sea coordinates archipelago total islands major islands area km2 0.20 coastline km highest mount elevation m country Syria country admin divisions title Governorates of Syria Governorate country admin divisions Tartus Governorate country admin divisions title 1 Districts of Syria District country admin divisions 1 Tartus District Tartus country admin divisions title 2 country capital city country largest city country largest city population country leader title country leader name population 10,000 ethnic groups additional info Arwad lang ar Biblical Hebrew , Arvad &ndash formerly known as Arado lang el , Arados Greek , Arvad , Arpad , Arphad , and Antiochia in Pieria Greek , also ... . The town of Arwad takes up the entire island. It is located convert 3 km mi from Tartus , Syria ... 200px left Fragment of a stele found in Arwad, 4th century BCE. Mus e du Louvre The name Arvad is noted ... Dei per Mongolos Dave Eggers , Zeitoun book Zeitoun External links commons category Arwad http whc.unesco.org en tentativelists 1303 L le d Arwad , Suggestion to have Arwad recognized as a UNESCO ... http www.pbase.com dosseman syria arwad Hundreds of pictures of the island http maps.google.com maps?f q&hl en&geocode &time &date &ttype &q arwad syria&sll 28.304381,16.875&sspn 47.997942,82.265625 ... sites in Syria am ar ca Arwad de Aruad el es Arwad eo Aruad fr Arouad gl Arwad it Arados he lt Arvadas lmo Ruad hu Arv d ja pl Arwad pt Arwad ru sv Arwad tr Arwad uk zh ... more details
Arwad al Boushi born 1958 59 is a Syria n born Canada Canadian oil industry worker. ref name GlobeandMail20060111 cite web url http www.theglobeandmail.com servlet story RTGAM.20060110.wxfreed10 BNStory International title Canadian recovering after Syrian incarceration Businessman reunites with son in Toronto, won t comment on 3 years spent in prison publisher Globe and Mail date January 10, 2006 ref He is notable for being at the center of the controversy over the detention and torture of Canadian citizens that has been attributed to American counter terrorism officials. ref name CouncilOnAmericanIslamicRelationsCanada cite news url http www.caircan.ca oped more.php?id 1345 0 10 0 C publisher Ottawa Citizen title There s nothing sinister or secret about what we do date January 17, 2005 author Riad Saloojee accessdate 2007 05 25 ref ref name DemocracyNow20041015 cite web url http www.democracynow.org article.pl?sid 04 10 15 157218 date October 15, 2004 title Amnesty Calls for Release of Syrian Canadian Jailed in Damascus for Over 2 Years publisher Democracy Now accessdate 2007 05 25 ref ref name AmnestyInternationalArwadAlBoushi Al Boushi wanted to visit Syria to visit his seriously ill father in 2002. ref name GlobeandMail20060111 ref name Ctv20051107 Al Boushi had been involved with the banned The Muslim Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood when he was a teenager. Prior to his departure Syrian authorities assured him his involvement with the banned The Muslim Brotherhood when he was a teenager, in the 1970s would not be a problem for him in 2002, over two decades later. He was nevertheless captured. Al Boushi was tried before a Field Military Court, whose procedures fall far short of international standards for fair trials. ref name AmnestyInternationalArwadAlBoushi cite web url http www.amnesty.ca take action actions syria arwad al boushi.php title Syria Arwad Al Boushi publisher Amnesty International accessdate 2007 05 25 ref Canadian authorities ostensibly conducted a long ... more details
Arado may refer to Arado Flugzeugwerke , a German aircraft company Arwad , an ancient city in Syria disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ca Arado ... more details
Tripolis lang el meaning three cities was a maritime district in ancient Phoenicia . The center of the confederation of the three Phoenician cities of Tyre, Lebanon Tyre , Sidon , and Arwad Aradus . Through the ages, it evolved to become the present Lebanese city of Tripoli Lebanon Tripoli . External links http www.ancientlibrary.com gazetteer 0358.html Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, Tripolis Archaeological sites in Lebanon Category Ancient Greek sites in Lebanon Ancient Greece stub Lebanon geo stub ar ... more details
Ruad may refer to Arwad , a small waterless island off the coast of Tortosa, Syria Fall of Ruad , battle around 1300 between the Egyptian Mamluks and the Crusaders ed R ad, D thorba and Cimb eth ed R ad , High King of medieval Irish legend Ruad, Old Irish term for red, as in Red Branch Ruad, a Celtic goddess, rescued by the dwarf poet Abc n Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages Disambig ... more details
George of Resh aina was a 7th century Syriac historian. He was opposed to Maximus the Confessor , the defender of orthodoxy against monotheletism and wrote an unfriendly biography of him. This book also provides a glimpse into the events of his time. After Maximus went up to Rome, Arabs seized control of the islands of the sea and took over Cyprus and Arwad , ravaging them and taking captives. They gained control over Africa and subdued almost all the islands of the sea for, following the wicked Maximus, the wrath of God punished every place which had accepted his error. George of Resh aina, Syriac Life of Maximus XXIII, 312 13 p. 141 DEFAULTSORT George of Resh aina Category 7th century historians Historian stub ... more details
This is an alphabetical list of castles in Syria . Abu Qobeis Castle in Abu Qbeis Al Kahf Castle Al Khawabi Castle in Al Khawabi , Tartous Aleika Castle in Tartous , known also as Aleika Alshghur Castle near Jeser Alshgur Apamea Castle Arwad Caste in Arwad Bani Qahtan Castle near Lattakia Bourzey castle also known as Qalaat Mirza , Mirza castle and Qalaat Barzuya near Jeser Alshgur Safita Chastel Blanc Chastel Blanc in Safita , also known as Burj Safita Citadel of Aleppo Citadel of Damascus Citadel of Salah Ed Din UNESCO World Heritage Site http whc.unesco.org en list 1229 Fakhr al Din al Maani Castle in Palmyra Halabiye on the Euphrates Herem Castle in Herem Syria Herem , Idlib Krak des Chevaliers Knights Castle UNESCO World Heritage Site http whc.unesco.org en list 1229 Mahalibeh Castle near Lattakia Maniqa Castle near Banyas Margat Castle near Banyas , known also as Marqab Castle Masyaf Castle in Masyaf Nimrod Fortress Qadmous Castle in Qadmous , Tartous Qal at Sukkara in the Jebel Abd al Aziz Qal at Ja bar along the Euphrates Qal at Najm along the Euphrates Qasr Alhalabat south of Palmyra Qasr al Heer al Gharbi south west of Palmyra Qasr al Heer al Sharqi north east of Palmyra Qasr ibn Wardan east of Hama Rahbeh Castle near Mayadin , Deir ez Zor Shaizar Castle in Mahardeh , Hama Shmemis Castle south east of Hama Hosn Suleiman temple near Tartous White Palace east of Damascus See also List of castles Category Castles in Syria Category Lists of castles in the Middle East Syria Category Syria related lists Castles ar de Liste von Burgen und Festungen in Syrien ... more details
About the insect genus the Syrian island Arwad Unreferenced stub type animal date December 2009 italic title Taxobox name Aradus regnum Animal ia image Aradus cinnamomeus female bialowieza beentree.jpg image width 240px image caption Adult female Aradus cinnamomeus phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Hemiptera infraordo Pentatomomorpha superfamilia Aradoidea familia Aradidae subfamilia Aradinae genus Aradus genus authority Johan Christian Fabricius Fabricius , 1803 subdivision ranks Species subdivision many Aradus is a large genus of flat bug s, with nearly 200 described species, the majority in the Holarctic . Temperate species commonly live under the bark of dead trees. File Aradus cinnamomeus young 1 bialowieza beentree.JPG thumb left A nymph of Aradus cinnamomeus Commons Category Aradidae Aradidae Category Pentatomomorpha Hemiptera stub ... more details
The Phoenician Ship Expedition http www.phoenicia.org.uk is a re creation of a 6th century BCE Phoenician voyage conceived by Philip Beale . The replica of an ancient Phoenician ship departed from Syria in August 2008, to sail through the Suez Canal, around the Horn of Africa and up the west coast of Africa, through the Straights of Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to return to Syria. The circumnavigation will be followed by another voyage to bring the ship to the United Kingdom in Spring 2010. In all the voyage will travel 17,000 miles and be 10 months at sea. ref http www.independent.co.uk news world europe sailor to recreate phoenicians epic african voyage 799304.html ref The expedition reached South Africa in early 2010. ref http www.sail world.com USA Phoenicia theyve reached South Africa 65931 ref The ship is 20 metres long and was constructed at Arwad Island , an ancient Phoenician city state just off the Syrian coast, by Syrian shipwright Khalid Hammoud using traditional methods. ref http www.sail world.com USA Phoenicia theyve reached South Africa 65931 ref Notes reflist Category Replications of ancient voyages ... more details
The city was probably founded by the Arwad Arvadites , ref name Baedeker and served as their continental ... ref It grew to be one of the wealthiest towns in the dominion of Arwad. The city surrendered, along with Arwad, to Alexander the Great in 333 BC. ref cite book title The Persian Empire A Corpus ... times the town, known as Marathus, was probably larger and more prosperous than Arwad. ref cite book ... BC Amrit gained independence from Arwad, and was later sacked by forces from the latter city in 148 ... of Amrit, Tartus and Arwad. ref cite web url http www.wmf.org project amrit archaeological ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Fawzi al Ghazzi 1891 1929 lang ar , was a Demographics of Syria Syrian politician known for being the father of the Syrian constitution. Ghazzi was born in Damascus , he studied in Damascus and Istanbul , and served in the Turkish army during World War I . After the Arab revolt he was appointed secretary of the Interior Ministry of the Arab Government in 1920. He was a staunch opposer to the French mandate of Syria French mandate , and was imprisoned several times and exiled, among other nationalist leaders, to the island of Arwad . He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1928, and the chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which was responsible for writing the first Syrian Constitution, which was approved by the Parliament on July 4, 1928. He was poisoned by his wife for unknown reasons. References http www.damascus online.com se bio ghazzi.htm Damascus Online Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ghazzi, Fawzi al ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1891 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1929 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ghazzi, Fawzi al Category 1891 births Category 1929 deaths Category Members of the Parliament of Syria Category Deaths by poisoning Category Syrian murder victims Category People murdered in Syria ... more details
The House of Rademacher is a Rhenish family of ancient nobility, that has its roots in the village of Rodemack in Lorraine. They also settled in Middelburg , Netherlands and in the latter also in North Rhine Westphalia Aachen , East Prussia Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast Tilsit , Latvia Riga and Hesse Frankfurt . Family history Ancestry The genealogical tree of the House of Rademacher leads back to the noble family de Rodemack from the village of Rodemack in Lorraine. The first document alluding the House of Rademacher from 1264 names the Rademacher coat of arms. ref Rolf Zobel, Wappen an Mittelrhein und Mosel , Book on Demand GmbH Norderstedt 2009, table 264. ref In July 13th of 1549 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. awarded a patent of nobility to the House of Rademacher, ref Leopold von Ledebur Rademacher . In Adelslexikon der preussischen Monarchie 1854 58 . Vol. 2, Ludwig Rauh publisher , Leipzig 1867, S. 249. http www.bsb muenchen digital.de web1042 bsb10428287 images index.html?digID bsb10428287&pimage 257&v 100&nav 0&l en read online ref only accrediting the already existing state of nobility. Family tree The first known locum of the dynasty was Dipoldus de Rodemack , ref see also http www.avp rodemack.com index.php?option com content&view category&layout blog&id 46&Itemid 66 Historique Association des Amis des Vieilles Pierres pour la Sauvegarde de RODEMACK. 24 jun 2010, 00 01 ref who was born in 904. In the 11th to 12th century the name changed to von Rodemack, von Rodemacker and then von Rademacker. But the actual name von Rademacher was already in use in the 13th century. As a Knights Templar Templar Matthias gidius von Rademacher was hevily wounded at the Siege of Acre 1291 Siege of Acre in 1291 and died in Arwad Crusades history Arwad . In the 16th century Gerlach von Rademacher converted to Protestantism . His grandson Johann von Rademacher had 13 children. The last known patent of nobility was awarded to Daniel von Rademacher by Joseph II, Holy ... more details
Image GuillaumeDeVillaret.jpg right thumb Engraving of Guillaume de Villaret 1600 Guillaume de Villaret Occitan Guilhem del Vilaret died 1305 , a native of Languedoc Roussillon was the 24th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller s, ref cite web url http www.smom za.org grandmasters 24.htm title Guillaume de Villaret 24th grandmaster of the Order of Malta SMOM publisher www.smom za.org accessdate 2007 11 11 ref a position he held from 1296 to his death. He was succeeded by his nephew, Foulques de Villaret , whose career he had done much to advance. Biography Before his position as List of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller Master , he had been grand prior of Saint Gilles, Gard Saint Gilles . He spent the first few years of his mastership in a reforming tour of the Order s priories in France proper, the Auvergne province Auvergne and Provence . De Villaret was successful in obtaining large additions of property and privileges from the Papacy and various European nobles. He also undertook a major reorganization of the Order, and promulgated a series of statutes between 1300 and 1304, the most significant of which was the definition of the powers and status of the admiral, a new great dignitary which had been created in 1299. Citation needed date November 2007 Combat in the Holy Land See also Franco Mongol alliance In 1300, in response to the urgent remonstrances of the knights, he appeared in Cyprus . His Order participated in an ill fated expedition with other Cypriots, meaning the Knights Templar , the Teutonic Knights , and the Kingdom of Jerusalem , to launch coastal raids along the Egypt ian, Palestine and Syria n coasts in 1300. The Cypriots, under Henry II of Jerusalem King Henry II , then sent a land based source to the island of Arwad , in an attempt to retake the coastal city of Tortosa . There had been some attempt to do this in concert with forces from the Mongol Empire Mongol Ilkhanate however the promised Mongol troops did not arrive, the Cypriots ... more details
There are 6432 towns and villages in Syria. This is an incomplete list of the town s and village s in Syria . See also List of cities in Syria . Homs Governorate Homs District Arrakamah Fairouzeh Sadad Wadi al Nasarah District Al Hwash Ain albardeh Marmarita Zweitina Amar Palmyra District al Rastan District Talkalakh District al Qusayr District Latakia Governorate Latakia District Al Bahluliyah Rabia, Syria Ayn al Beida, Syria Qastal Maaf Kasab Hennadi Jableh District Ayn al Shrqiyah Al Qutilabiyah Ayn Shuqaq Dalia, Syria Bayt Yashut Al Haffah District Slinfah Al Nabi Younes Ayn al Tinah Kenasba Muzeraa Salma Kfar Delbeh Tertyah Brouma Taouma Dwairke Kdeen Al Mriej Road Qardaha District Harf al Mseitra Al Fakhoura Joubet Burghal Rif Dimashq Governorate Markaz Rif Dimashq Kiswe, Syria Bebila Jaramanah Al Maliha Kafar Batna Arbin Qudsayyah Duma District Harasta Al Sabea Biyar Dumeir Al Nashabiyah Al Ghuzlaniyah Harran al Awamid Al Qutayfah District Jairoud Maaloula Al Ruheibeh Al Sisaniyah Ras al Khashufah Al Tall District Mneen Saidnaya Rankous Yabrud District Assal al Ward Al Nabk District Deir Atiyah Qarah, Syria Qarah Al Sehl Zabadani District Al Dimas Ayn al Fijeh Madaya, Syria Sirghaya Bloudan Maysalun Evra, Syria Evra Herera Qatana District Bayt Jinn Saasaa Artouze Darayya District Sihnaya Al Hajar al Aswad Tartus Governorate Tartus District Arwad Al Hamidiyah Khirbet al Maazeh Suda Khawabi Karimeh Sufsafeh Baniyas District Al Rawda Al Ennazeh Al Qadmus Hammam Wasel Al Tawaheen Taleen Safita District Mashta al Helou Al Bariqiyah Sibba, Syria Al Sisaniyah Ras al Khashufah Duraykish District Jneinet Ruslan Himmeen Dweir Ruslan Ash Shaykh Badr District Brummanet al Mashayekh Qamsieh Quneitra Governorate Quneitra District Khan Arnabeh Al Khishniyah Ein Qiniyye Majdal Shams Buq ata Beer Ajam Ghajar Mas ade A Arrakamah Abo Faraj Ain albardeh Ain Alkrom Amar Al Hisn Amuda Ariqah F Fairouz H Homs Hawrat Amoreen Hwash I Imtan J Jlaimih K Kafr Buhum Kafr Yabous Kafroun K ... more details
by the Alawite Mountains to the east. Arwad , the only inhabited island on the Syrian coast ... Antaradus Main Arwad The History of Tartus goes back to the 2nd millennium BC when it was founded as a Phoenicia n colony of Arwad Aradus . ref http lexicorient.com e.o tartus.htm Tartus Encyclopaedia ... Antarados , Anti Aradus , meaning The town facing Arwad . Not much remains of the Phoenicia n Antaradus ... on the nearby island of Arwad , which they kept for another decade. Economy Tartus is an important ... The old city of Tartus. Marqab Castle, north of the city. The historic Town of Safita . Arwad island ... more details
Amalric de Lusignan or Amaury II de Lusignan , Prince of Tyre c. 1272 &ndash June 5, 1310, Nicosia , of the Lusignan dynasty Lusignan family , was a son of Hugh III of Cyprus and Isabella of Ibelin. Biography Amalric was at the Fall of Tripoli 1289 Fall of Tripoli in 1289, in which he led a company of knights and four galleys from Cyprus . ref Runciman, p.406 ref He escaped the siege of Tripoli together with Lucia of Tripoli , and was made Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem Constables Constable of Jerusalem in April 1289. In 1290, he became Lord of Tyre . He was the officer in command of the Accursed Tower at the Siege of Acre 1291 siege of Acre in 1291, and escaped the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem with his brother, Henry II of Jerusalem King Henry , thus becoming Titular Constable of Jerusalem and Titular Lord of Tyre. In 1300 Amalric attempted combined military operations with the Mongol Empire Mongols under Ghazan to retake the Holy Land . ref More serious was the expedition led in 1300, in response to another appeal by Ghazan, by the king s brother Amaury, titular Lord of Tyre and Constable of the kingdom of Jerusalem the first attempt since 1291 to restore the Latin settlement in the Holy Land, and to coordinate military activity with the Ilkhan s forces. The Templar Master, Jacques de Molay , seems to have been particularly enthousiastic about the campaign Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the West , p.171 ref He and other Cypriots occupied the island of Ruad , but the Mongols did not appear and the Westerners withdrew, ref At the head of a combined force of Cypriot knights and Templars, Amaury occupied the small island of Ruad Arwad , off the coast near Tortosa but Qutlugh Shah s army did not appear and the Cypriots withdrew. , Jackson, p.171 ref eventually losing the island entirely in the Siege of Ruad . When his brother Henry became unpopular in Cyprus, Amalric overthrew him with the aid of the Knights Templar and some of the barons, assuming the titles ... more details
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