• Al-Qadmus (Arabic: القدموس, also spelled al-Qadmous or Cadmus) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located...
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    and Ismaili leaders of the al-Qadmus area in Jabal Ansariyah. According to historian Dick Douwes, the conflict in al-Qadmus "cannot readily be attributed...
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    Assassin power, and included Syrian strongholds at Masyaf, Abu Qubays, al-Qadmus and al-Kahf. The Western world was introduced to the Assassins by the works...
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    Nahr al-Kabir river forms the border with Lebanon to the south. Tartus is the regional capital; other major settlements include Al-Hamidiyah, Al Qadmus, Al-Sawda...
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    Margat (redirect from Al-Marqab)
    the same name, which contained three nahiyas ("subdistricts") — Margat, Qadmus and Khawabi. In the 1890s there was a total of 393 localities with a collective...
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    Al-Qadmus to the town of Sheikh Badr in order to arrest Saleh al-Ali. Al-Ali and his men ambushed the force at the village of Niha, west of Wadi al-Oyoun...
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  • al-Aswad Arwad Al-Hamidiyah Khirbet al-Maazah Suda Khawabi Al-Karimah Al-Safsafah Al-Rawda Al-Annazah Al-Qadmus Hammam Wasel Al-Tawahin Talin Bayt al-Shaykh...
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    Syria, including Masyaf, Rusafa, al-Kahf, al-Qadmus, Khawabi, Sarmin, Quliya, Ulayqa, Maniqa, Abu Qubays and Jabal al-Summaq. For the most part, the Assassins...
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    ranks. The Al-Shaykh Badr skirmish began the Syrian Revolt of 1919. Al-Ali responded to French attacks by laying siege to (and occupying) al-Qadmus, from which...
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    as historical person is rejected by most scholars. The Syrian city of Al-Qadmus is named after Cadmus. E. Nesbit's 1901 novel The Wouldbegoods includes...
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