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Barisha
بَارِيشَا | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Villa in Barisha with porch pillars. To the left is the east gable of a basilica. | |
  Barisha Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36°09′58″N 36°38′10″E / 36.16611°N 36.63611°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Idlib |
| District | Harem |
| Subdistrict | Qurqania |
| Occupation | Syrian transitional government |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 1,143 |
Barisha (Arabic: بَارِيشَا, Bārīšā;[1] also spelled Baricha and Barischa) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of Harem District in the Idlib Governorate. In the 2004 Syrian census Barisha was listed with a population of 1,143.[2] More recent reports place the population at about 7,000.[3]
It is situated in the A'la Mountain and is part of an area known as the "Dead Cities."[4] Barisha is located in Harem District of Idlib Governorate in the Ala Mountains near the Syrian border with Turkey. It is in the central region of the northern Syrian limestone massif, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Qalb Loze across a valley. The karst topography of the limestone left many small caves, some of which were habitations. Barish is located on the site of an ancient settlement, Dayhis. There are early Byzantine period ruins including residential buildings, cisterns, olive presses, and a church in the village.[5] The modern village is about 500 metres (1,640 ft) north of the ruins. The ruins are surrounded by olive groves and small plots of mostly wheat.
- ^ Bārīshā (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived February 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Idlib Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ "Population 7,000, the poor Syrian village of Barisha where Baghdadi died sits near porous border with Turkey". The Japan Times. Agence France-Presse and Jiji Press. 28 October 2019. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ Burns, Ross (2009) The Monuments of Syria: A Guide (third edition) I.B. Taurus, London, page 140, ISBN 978-1-84511-947-8
- ^ Strube, Christine (1993) "Baudekoration im Nordsyrischen Kalksteinmassiv Vol. II. Kapitell-, Tür- und Gesimsformen des 6. und frühen 7. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. (Damaszener Forschungen 11) Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, Germany, pp. 85–87, in German, reviewed at Arbeiter, Achim (2006) Byzantinische Zeitschrift 98 (2): pp. 610–615; doi:10.1515/BYZS.2005.610