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The Battle of the Yarmuk (also spelled Yarmouk) was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate.The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River (also called the Hieromyces River), along what are now the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria-Israel, southeast of the Sea ...
Map of the area surrounding the battle of Yarmouk. Had to make this map to pin-point the exact location of the battle for further maps to be built.
The Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015) broke out in April 2015, during the Syrian Civil War, when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant stormed the rebel-held Yarmouk Camp. The Yarmouk Camp is a district of Damascus that is home to the largest community of Palestinian refugees in Syria .
It flows into the Yarmouk River, of which it is one of the main tributaries, and forms the topographical eastern boundary of the Golan Heights. It marks the south-east part of the de facto border between the Israel -annexed part of the Golan Heights and the Syrian-held part of the region.
A map of al-Jazira region (Upper Mesopotamia) in the 8th century. Iyad played a leading role in the Muslim conquest of the region. After the defeat in the Battle of Yarmouk, Heraclius mounted a counterattack operation in Syria.
Battle of Yarmouk, a major battle between Arab Muslim forces and the armies of the Eastern Roman-Byzantine Empire in 636 Yarmukian culture , a Neolithic archaeological culture of the ancient Levant Yarmouk munitions factory explosion , an alleged Israeli air strike against a munitions factory in Sudan in October 2012
Yarmouk was constructed in 1957 on an area of 2.11 square kilometers (0.81 sq mi) to house refugees. [2] Though it was not officially recognized as a refugee camp, road signs leading to this sector of the city read Muḵayyam al-Yarmūk, meaning "Yarmouk refugee camp". [2] Administratively, Yarmouk is a city (madīna) in the Damascus ...
The Yarmuk River (Arabic: نهر اليرموك, romanized: Nahr al-Yarmūk, Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְמוּךְ , romanized: Nəhar hayYarmūḵ; Greek: Ἱερομύκης, Hieromýkēs; Latin: Hieromyces [1] or Heromicas; [2] sometimes spelled Yarmouk) [3] is the largest tributary of the Jordan River. [4]