Darayya
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داريا Darayya |
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 27 ' N , 36 ° 15' E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
| Rif Dimashq | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY-RD | ||
| height | 689 m | ||
| Residents | 73,362 (2006) | ||
Darayya , also Daraja ( Arabic داريا, DMG Dārayyā ), is a city in the Rif Dimashq governorate in Syria . It is a suburb of Damascus .
history
During the civil war in Syria , parts of the city turned against President Bashar al-Assad early on and joined the rebels. The city has been the scene of fierce fighting several times. There were reports in the media that between 200 and 320 people were executed by the Syrian Army in a massacre in August 2012 .
After several weeks of heavy bombing, the defense area had melted down so that it was no longer possible to grow food there. The fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their groups Liwaa Shuhada Al-Islam and Ajnad Al-Sham surrendered on August 25, 2016 after a four-year siege by Syrian government troops without aid supplies . After the weapons had been surrendered, the fighters were assured safe passage .
During the time of siege, the city housed a secret library with over 15,000 books that had been recovered from the rubble of destroyed houses. The library was looted after being captured by government soldiers.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gregory III. Laham (born 1933), patriarch
- Ghiath Matar (1986–2011), activist of the Syrian opposition
- Yusra Mardini (* 1998), Syrian swimmer
Individual evidence
- ^ A b "Rebels to surrender Syrian town of Darayya to Assad's forces" The Guardian of August 25, 2016.
- ^ Rebels report massacres with hundreds of deaths in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on August 26, 2012.
- ^ First phase of Darayya surrender completed. almasdarnews.com, August 27, 2016, accessed August 27, 2016 .
- ^ A secret library in Syria. Collecting books from ruins ZDF aspects from August 21, 2018.