Al-Jalaa

Al-Jalaa

Al-Jalaa

Place in Deir ez-Zor, Syria

Not to be confused with Jalaa SC.
For the building, see Al Jalaa Highrise.

Al-Jalaa (Arabic: ٱلْجَلَاء, romanized: al-Jalāʾ) is a small city in eastern Syria, administratively part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, located along the Euphrates River, south of Deir ez-Zor. Nearby localities include al-Abbas to the west, al-Ramadi and Abu Kamal to the south and Kharayij and Hajin to the north. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Jalaa had a population of 9,171 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") of the Abu Kamal District. The al-Jalaa subdistrict consists of six towns which had a collective population of 29,255 in 2004.[1]

Al-Jalaa is the administrative center of Nahiya al-Jalaa of the Abu Kamal District.
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In the Syrian Civil War the city was occupied by ISIL until the Syrian army captured it on 5 December 2017.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Deir az-Zawr Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. [2]
    "Breaking: Syrian Army on the cusp of final victory over ISIS in eastern Syria". Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
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