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The anthem was initially set to lose the competition, but it later won the competition after it gained rapid popularity amongst the Syrian population which put pressure on the competition's committee to reconsider its decisions, and eventually the anthem won and was adopted by the government as Syria's national anthem. [2] [3] [4]
Syrian national anthem may refer to: Ḥumāt ad-Diyār (English: Guardians of the Homeland ), de jure national anthem with an ambiguous status after the fall of the Ba'athist regime. Fī Sabīli al-Majd (English: In persuit of Glory ), de facto used as an anthem for Syria after the fall of the Ba'athist regime.
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
Thousands gathered in northwestern Syria on Friday for weekly prayers and a rally where clerics in the port city of Latakia, a former stronghold of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, urged national ...
National colours: Green, white, black and red (Pan-Arab colors) National flower: Jasmine [1] National tree: Olive tree (Olea europaea) [2] National bird: Northern bald ibis [3] National animal: The Syrian Brown Bear [4] National dish: Kibbeh Bil Sanieh [5] National instrument: Qanun [6] National dance: Dabke: National sport: Association football
" Wallāh Zamān, Yā Silāḥī" (Arabic: والله زمان يا سلاحي) was the national anthem of the United Arab Republic (UAR), a federation of Egypt and Syria, from 1960. Though the UAR disbanded in 1961, Egypt retained it as the official name of the state until 1971, and used its national anthem until 1979.
The group he leads is among the more organized of the many rebel factions who took part in the offensive, having spent the past few years governing 4 million people in Idlib through a semi ...
Syrian rebels ousted pro-government forces from Hama on Thursday, bringing the insurgents a major new victory after a lightning advance across northern Syria and dealing a new blow to President ...