Yalda, Sirie

Yalda (, an aa spelled Yelda) is a toun in soothren Sirie, admeenistratively pairt o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate, locatit on the soothren ootskirts o Damascus tae the wast o the Yarmouk Camp. Nearbi localities include al-Hajar al-Aswad, Jaramana, Sayyidah Zaynab, al-Sabinah an Babbila. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, Yalda haed a population o 28,384 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Govrenorate.  The toun is the admeenistrative centre o the Babbila nahiyah consistin o 13 touns an veelages wi a combined population o 341625 an aw.

History
The toun haes auncient ruins includin foondations o hewn stane an Corinthian columns o basalt.Porter, 1870, p. 157.

Yalda wis visitit bi Sirie geografer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13t-century, durin Ayyubid rule. He notit that it wis "a veelage lyin some 3 miles frae Damascus. The feenal n is sometimes left oot, an the name pronooncit Yalda."le Strange, 1890, p. 552.

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