Alawites
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Alawites are an ethnoreligious group, many of whom identify as Arabs, who live primarily in Syria and elsewhere in the Levant. They follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during
Alawites celebrating at a festival in Baniyas, Syria during World War II
An Alawite falconer photographed by Frank Hurley in Baniyas, Syria during World War II.
Saleh al-Ali, leader of the Alawite revolt of 1919
An Alawite woman gleaning in 1938
Syria
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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north and northwe
Alawites
…Alawites (Arabic: العلويون, romanized: al-ʿAlawiyyūn) are an ethnoreligious group, many of whom identify as Arabs, who live primarily in Syria and elsewhere in the Levant. They follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi…
Reconstructed sculpture of a bird from Tell Halaf
Ishqi-Mari, king of the Second Kingdom of Mari, circa 2300 BC
Amrit Phoenician Temple
Antioch in Syria became the capital of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire in 240 BC