About Homs Syria
, city For the city, in Libya see Khoms Libya. For, military actions near, the city see Battle of Homs.
Homs. (Arabic:: welcome م chance / ALA-LC: Ḥ im ṣ), previously known as Emesa (Greek: Ἔ thermal ε σ α / Emesa), is a city in Western Syria and the capital. Of the Homs Governorate. It is 501, metres (1644 ft) above sea level and is located 162 kilometres (101 mi) north of Damascus. Located on the Orontes River Homs is,, Also the central link between the interior cities and the Mediterranean coast.
Previous to the, civil war Homs was a major. Industrial centre and with, a population of at least 652 609 people in 2004,,It was the third largest city in Syria after Aleppo to the north and the capital Damascus to the south. Its population. Reflects Syria 's general religious diversity composed mostly, of Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslims and Alawite and Christian. Minorities. There are a number of historic mosques and churches in the city and it, is close to the Krak des Chevaliers. Castle a world, heritage site.
.Homs did not emerge into the historical record until the 1st century BCE at the time of the Seleucids. It later became. The capital of a kingdom ruled by the Emesani Dynasty who gave the city its name. Originally a center of worship for the. Sun God El-Gabal it later, gained importance in Christianity under the Byzantines.Homs was conquered by the Muslims in the 7th-century and made capital of a district that bore its current name. Throughout. The Islamic era Muslim dynasties, contending for control of Syria sought after Homs due to the city 's strategic position. In the area.Homs began to decline under the Ottomans and only in the 19th century did the city regain its economic importance when. Its cotton industry boomed. During French Mandate rule the city, became a center of insurrection and after independence,, In 1946 a center, of Baathist resistance to the first Syrian governments.
In the ongoing Syrian, civil warHoms became an opposition stronghold and the Syrian government launched a military assault against the city in May 2011. By 14, January 2014 the. Government was in control of Homs except for the Old City which remains, in rebel hands and is under government siege. The. Syrian army 's artillery shelling and warplane bombing has left much of the city completely destroyed and thousands dead.
.In, May 2014 rebel forces withdrew from all areas.
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