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  2. Baniyas - Wikipedia

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    Baniyas. Baniyas (Arabic: بَانِيَاس Bāniyās) is a Mediterranean coastal city in Tartous Governorate, northwestern Syria, located 55 km (34 mi) south of Latakia and 35 km (22 mi) north of Tartous. It is known for its citrus fruit orchards and its export of wood. North of the city is an oil refinery, one of the largest in Syria, and a ...

  3. Banias - Wikipedia

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    Banias. Banias (Arabic: بانياس الحولة; Modern Hebrew: בניאס; Judeo-Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew: פמייס, etc.; [2] Ancient Greek: Πανεάς), also spelled or Banyas, is a site in the Golan Heights near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan. It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until its Syrian population ...

  4. Church of the East monastery on Sir Bani Yas - Wikipedia

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    The Church of the East monastery on Sir Bani Yas is an archaeological site in the United Arab Emirates discovered in 1992. The site is significant as evidence of the presence of Christianity in the UAE in the pre-Islamic period. Believed to be Nestorian, the Christian community continued for at least a century after the arrival of Islam .

  5. Bani Yas - Wikipedia

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    Bani Yas (Arabic: بَنُو ياس) is a tribal confederation of Najdi origin [1] in the modern United Arab Emirates. [2] The tribal coalition, consisting of tribes from Dubai to Khor Al Adaid in southeast Qatar, was called the Bani Yas Coalition (Arabic: حلف بني ياس). [3] Al Nahyan, a branch of Al Falahi, leads the tribe and is the ...

  6. Yas Island - Wikipedia

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    Administration. United Arab Emirates. Yas Island (Arabic: جزيرة ياس) is an island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates named after the Arabian Tribe- Bani Yas Tribe. [1] It occupies a total land area of 25 km 2 (9.7 sq mi). It is a leisure island and one of the largest tourism projects in Abu Dhabi.

  7. Bania (caste) - Wikipedia

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    The Bania is a sub-caste (or jati) of the Vaishya caste (or varna). Vaishyas are tradition-ally the merchant class and are placed third in the hierarchical ordering of the four varnas of traditional Hinduism. Census of India, 1961 Volume 19, Issue 6, Part 6. Office of the Registrar General, India. 1964. p. 9.

  8. Banias River - Wikipedia

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    Banias River. The Banias (Arabic: نهر بانياس, romanized: Nahr Baniyas; Hebrew: נחל חרמון, romanized: Nahal Hermon) [3] is a river flowing from the Golan Heights to Israel. It is the easternmost of the three main northern tributaries of the Jordan River; together with the Dan River and the Hasbani River, it forms the Jordan ...

  9. Sir Bani Yas - Wikipedia

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    Arabs. Ṣīr Banī Yās (Arabic: صِير بَنِي يَاس) is a natural island located 170 km (110 mi) southwest of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It lies 9 km (5.6 mi) offshore from Jebel Dhanna, which serves as a crossing point to other islands such as Dalma. Sir Bani Yas is 17.5 km (10.9 mi) from north to south and ...

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