Sultan al-Atrash
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Sultan al-Atrash was a Syrian nationalist revolutionary who led the Great Syrian Revolt against the French colonial administration in Syria. One of the most influential figures in Syrian and Druze his
Al-Atrash in the Arabian desert after the Syrian revolt
Portrait of Sultan al-Atrash
Suwayda celebration for Sultan's and the other rebels' return from exile in 1937
Hilal al-Atrash, Sultan's kinsman and the rebellious sheikh of Rasas, during a ceremony celebrating the release of Syrian rebels
Al-Atrash
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The al-Atrash, also known as Bani al-Atrash, is a Druze clan based in Jabal Hauran in southwestern Syria. The family's name al-atrash is Arabic for "the deaf" and derives from one the family's deaf pa
Sultan al-Atrash
…Jabal al-Druze and of Syria in general. Sultan al-Atrash was born in al-Qrayya, a village 20 km south of Suwayda known for the famous Druze family of Al-Atrash, which had nominally governed the region since 1879. His father Zuqan led a fierce battle against the Ottomans near Al-Kefr in 1910, where he faced the…
Shibli al-Atrash in Ira, Syria, October 1895