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Beit Yashout

Beit Yashout
بيت ياشوط
Town
Beit Yashout is located in Syria
Beit Yashout
Beit Yashout
Coordinates: 35°19′1″N 36°7′49″E / 35.31694°N 36.13028°E / 35.31694; 36.13028
Country  Syria
Governorate Latakia Governorate
District Jableh District
Nahiyah Beit Yashout
Elevation 500 m (1,600 ft)
Population (2004 census)
 • Total 6,115
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Beit Yashout (Arabic: بيت ياشوط‎‎) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District of the Latakia Governorate, and located south of Latakia. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Sharqiyah to the west and al-Daliyah to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Yashout had a population of 6,115 in the 2004 census. The town is located in the An-Nusayriyah Mountains at an elevation of around 500 m (1,700 ft).

Beit Yashout is one of the settlements inhabited by the Alawite Hadadeen tribe, to which former first lady Aniseh Makhluf belonged. However, the village was a traditional home of the Bani Ali clan, also Alawite. Beit Yashout is the hometown of Muhammad al-Khuli, a prominent military official in Baathist governments in the 1960s and throughout former president Hafez al-Assad's time in office (1970-2000).


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