Al-Kiswah ( Arabic : الكسوة Al Kiswah also spelled Kissoué / Kiswe ) is a city in the Rif Dimashq Governorate , Syria . It is located approximately 13 kilometres (8 miles) south of Damascus . It was the location of the 1303 Battle of Marj al-Saffar , and the childhood home of Adnan Awad .
4-497: Administratively, Al-Kiswah belongs to Markaz Rif Dimashq district. It is one of the largest towns of the district by terms of population. The name "al-Kiswah" means "the garment". According to a tradition related by Yaqut al-Hamawi , this is because the king of Rum sent some messengers to demand tribute from a figure named King Ghassan; he had the messengers killed and then, at the site of al-Kiswah, he had their garments divided up. Yaqut and Ibn Battuta both described al-Kiswah as
8-519: A predominantly Sunni Muslim village. This article about a location in Rif Dimashq Governorate , Syria is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Markaz Rif Dimashq Markaz Rif Dimashq District ( Arabic : منطقة مركز ريف دمشق , romanized : manṭiqat Markaz Rif Dimašq ) or Damascus Central Countryside District is a district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria . Markaz Rif Dimashq
12-561: Is located south of the Damascus Governorate covering the southeastern outskirts of metropolitan Damascus . With most administrative buildings being located in Damascus, the district has no official administrative centre . With a population of 136,427 inhabitants, the town of Sayyidah Zaynab however is the largest city of the district. The district was split in 2009, when the sub-district Qudsaya , located northwest of Damascus, became
16-471: The first stage on the hajj route out of Damascus. Abu'l-Fida similarly described al-Kiswah as a stopping place on the road south of Damascus and added that between the two places, the road went through a "beautiful pass" called the 'Aqabah ash-Shuhūrah. He also wrote that it lay on a stream called the Nahr al-A'waj which flowed down from the "mountain of snow", i.e. Mount Hermon . In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as
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