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Marjeh Square

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Marjeh Square (ساحة المرجة / ALA-LC: sāḥat al-Marjah), also known as "Martyrs' Square" (ساحة الشهداء sāḥat ash-Shuhadā’), is a square in central Damascus, Syria, just outside the walls of the old city. [1]

7 relations: ALA-LC romanization, Damascus, Great Syrian Revolt, Hasan al-Kharrat, Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria), Ministry of Interior (Syria), Ottoman Empire.

ALA-LC romanization

ALA-LC (American Library Association - Library of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script.

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Damascus

Damascus (دمشق, Syrian) is the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic; it is also the country's largest city, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city.

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Great Syrian Revolt

The Great Syrian Revolt (الثورة السورية الكبرى) or Great Druze Revolt (1925–1927) was a general uprising across Mandatory Syria and Lebanon aimed at getting rid of the French, who had been in control of the region since the end of World War I.Miller, 1977, p. 547.

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Hasan al-Kharrat

Abu Muhammad Hasan al-Kharrat (حسن الخراط Ḥassan al-Kharrāṭ; 1861–25 December 1925) was one of the principal Syrian rebel commanders of the Great Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate.

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Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria)

Martyrs' Day (عيد الشهداء) is a Syrian and Lebanese national holiday commemorating the Syrian and Lebanese nationalists executed in Damascus and Beirut on May 6, 1916 by Jamal Pasha, also known as 'Al Jazzar' or 'The Butcher', the Ottoman wāli of Greater Syria.

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Ministry of Interior (Syria)

The Ministry of Interior (Arabic: وزارة الداخلية) is the interior ministry of Syria.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Al marjah, Martyrs' Square, Damascus, Merjeh Square.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjeh_Square

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