Jisr al-Shughur
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جسر الشغور / Ǧisr aš-Šuġūr Jisr asch-Shughur |
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 49 ′ N , 36 ° 19 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
| Idlib | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY ID | ||
| height | 165 m | ||
| Residents | 44,322 (2010) | ||
 At the beginning of the covered market area
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Jisr asch-Shughur ( Arabic جسر الشغور, DMG Ǧisr aš-Šuġūr , French Jisr al-Choghour , English Jisr ash-Shughur ) is a city in the Idlib governorate in northwestern Syria .
By 1970 Jisr el-Shughur had about 16,000 inhabitants. For 2010, 44,322 inhabitants were calculated.
location
The city on the Nahr al-Asi (Orontes) is an old regional trade center at a crossroads of the main road from Aleppo to the Mediterranean coast to Latakia , about 45 kilometers west of Idlib . A road leads south in the broad Ghab plain along the steep eastern slope of the Jebel Aansariye and on to Hama . A side road leads north via Darkusch and Salqin along the Turkish border into the remote hill country of the northern Syrian limestone massif, which is mainly inhabited by Kurds .
From the central departure point for minibuses, narrow streets lead up to the old town and the busy, covered souq . Jisr asch-Shughur is a traditional, Islamic-conservative place that is predominantly inhabited by Sunnis .
history
The roots of the city and the olive tree culture go back to Roman times . A bridge over the Orontes with a Roman foundation is still preserved. A fortress and a khan ( caravanserai ) date from the Ottoman period , both of which were donated by Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pascha (ruled 1656–1661).
The town received an additional boost when, in 1954, work began on draining the malaria- contaminated marshland of the Ghab in the south and the smaller Rudsch basin in the north by building drainage canals. From 1960 the level of the Ghab was opened up for new settlers; Since 1965 there have been concrete irrigation channels there, with which the cotton and vegetables planted in summer are irrigated. A sugar factory completed in 1967 and a cattle breeding business should give the city additional economic impetus.
In early 1980, the Syrian air force bombed the city while fighting the Muslim Brotherhood . This forbidden insurgency was militarily crushed in February 1982 during the Hama massacre .
In connection with the protests in Syria , which began in January 2011, "armed gangs" killed 120 members of the army on June 6, according to the Syrian government . Opposition members, however, suspected a mutiny in which the soldiers were shot from within their own ranks. Most of the residents left the city surrounded by tanks, and many fled across the Turkish border. On June 10, the Syrian army began a military operation in Jisr el-Shughur, in which 30,000 soldiers are believed to be involved. According to reports, almost all residents had left the city by the time. The fourth division that carried out the operation was commanded by Mahir al-Assad .
On April 25, 2015, the city was captured by the rebels of the Islamist alliance Jaish al-Fatah with the help of the Free Syrian Army .
economy
Its function as a trading center is made possible by its geographically favorable location in the north-south running Syrian rift valley and the low pass crossing to the Mediterranean Sea towards the west.
Jisr el-Shughur is a traditional olive-growing area. In the very fertile Orontes Valley to the north to Darkusch, fewer olives are grown , but pomegranates , tobacco and figs are grown.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eugen Wirth : Syria, a geographical country study . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1971, p. 376
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Caroline Finkel: Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books, New York 2007, p. 264, ISBN 978-0-465-02397-4
- ^ Syria town of Jisr al-Shughour braces for army assault. BBC, June 7, 2011
- ↑ Syrian town empties as government tanks mass outside. Guardian, June 7, 2011
- ↑ Assad's army starts military action. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 10, 2011, accessed June 10, 2011 .
- ↑ Major offensive in Syria. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 10, 2011, accessed June 10, 2011 .
- ↑ Markus Bickel: The conflict spreads to Lebanon. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 18, 2011, accessed June 20, 2011 .
- ^ Sara Hussein: 'Army of Conquest' rebel alliance pressures Syria regime. Yahoo, April 28, 2015
- ↑ Anne Barnard, Hwaida Saad: Islamists Seize Control of Syrian City in North West. The New York Times, April 25, 2015, accessed April 27, 2015 : "Other video images posted by fighters and antigovernment activists showed insurgents, including some with Fursan al-Haq, a Free Syrian Army group, using what appeared to be guided antitank missiles to blow up armored vehicles in the battles in Idlib Province in recent days. "
