In the early 1980s, light-grade, low-sulphur oil was discovered near Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria.

* Deir ez-Zor Airport

Bedouin smoking hookah, locally called nargileh, in a coffeehouse in Deir ez-Zor, on the Euphrates, 1920s.

* During the 1915 Armenian Genocide, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were forced to march through the desert of Deir ez-Zor to the Deir ez-Zor Camps where most of them perished.

Today there is a memorial in Deir ez-Zor for the marchers.

He led the Indian 10th Infantry Division as part of Iraqforce during the Anglo-Iraqi War, the Syria-Lebanon Campaign ( where the division advanced up the river Euphrates to capture Deir ez-Zor ), and the invasion of Persia.

Finds from the excavations at Tell Mozan are on display in the Deir ez-Zor Museum.

* The Second World War: El Alamein, Mareth, Akarit, Djebel el Meida, Enfidaville, Tunis, North Africa 1942 – 43, Cassino I, Monastery Hill, Pian di Maggio, Gothic Line, Coriano, Poggio San Giovanni, Monte Reggiano, Italy 1944 – 45, Greece 1944 – 45, North Malaya, Jitra, Central Malaya, Kampar, Slim River, Johore, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941 – 42, North Arakan, Irrawaddy, Magwe, Sittang 1945, Point 1433, Arakan Beaches, Myebon, Iraq 1941, Deir ez-Zor, Syria 1941, Coriano, Santarcangelo, Senio Floodbank, Bologna, Sillaro Crossing, Gaiana Crossing, Italy 1943 – 45, Monywa 1942, Coriano, Sant Angelo, Monte Chicco, Lamone Crossing, Gaiana Crossing, Italy 1944 – 45, Burma 1942 – 45, Shwebo, Kyaukmyaung Bridgehead, Tobruk 1942, North Africa 1942, Cassino I, Campriano, Poggio del Grillo, Tavoleto, Montebello-Scorticata Ridge, Italy 1944, Sittang 1942 ' 45, Pegu 1942, Kyaukse 1942, Shwegyin, Imphal, Bishenpur, Meiktila, Capture of Meiktila, Imphal, Tuitum, Tamu Road, Shenam Pass, Litan, Bishenpur, Tengnoupal, Mandalay, Myinmu Bridgehead, Kyaukse 1945, Meiktila, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Irrawaddy River, Rangoon Road, Pegu 1945, Sittang 1945, Burma 1942 – 45, Defence of Meiktila, Rangoon Road, Pyawbwe, Burma 1942-45 Chindits 1944, Tanbingon, Tamandu, Chindits 1943, Burma 1943 – 45.

Mari ( modern Tell Hariri, Syria ) was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

Finds from the excavation are on display in the National Museum of Aleppo, the National Museum of Damascus, and the Deir ez-Zor Museum.

Category: Deir ez-Zor Governorate

Deir ez-Zor, also spelled Dayr al-Zawr, Der Ezzor, Deir Azzor, and other variants (; Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܙܥܘܪܬܐ,,, Ter Zor ), is the 6th largest city in Syria and the largest in the eastern part of Syria.

Located 450 km to the northeast from the capital Damascus on the shores of Euphrates River, Deir ez-Zor is the capital of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate.

France occupied Deir ez-Zor in 1921 and made it the seat of a large garrison.

Deir ez-Zor is situated 85 km to the northwest of the archaeological remains of Dura-Europos and 120 km northwest of the remains of the ancient city of Mari.

The majority of Deiries ( from Deir ez-Zor ) are Arabs, most of them are farmers from Jazira and urbanised bedouins of the Syrian Desert, with few Kurdish, Armenian and Assyrian / Syriac families.

Deir ez-Zor was the final concentration place for Deir ez-Zor Camps for annihilating the Armenian deportation caravans.

The relic of St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria is currently preserved under the new Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Deir El-Anba Rowais, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt.

Sidon is the seat of the Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop of Sidon and Deir el Qamar, and has housed a significant Catholic population throughout its history.

This information is inscribed on the ruins of the Monastery ( the name is the translation of the Arabic " Ad Deir ").

St. Anthony's ( Deir Mar Antonios ) is the oldest monastery in the world and under the patronage of the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Yet, it is perhaps most telling that Seth's cultus persisted with astonishing potency even into the latter days of ancient Egyptian religion, in outlying ( but important ) places like Kharga, Dakhlah, Deir el-Hagar, Mut, Kellis, etc.

It is reported that Hatshepsut had these trees planted in the courts of her Deir el Bahri mortuary temple complex.

She had the expedition commemorated in relief at Deir el-Bahri, which also is famous for its realistic depiction of the Queen of the Land of Punt, Queen Iti, who appears to have had a genetic trait called steatopygia.

Djeser-Djeseru is the main building of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple complex at Deir el-Bahri.

* 1336 BC – 1327 BC: Inner coffin of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus, from the tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings near Deir el-Bahri is made.

* c. 1473 BC – 1458 BC – Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el Bahri is built.

The Gaza Strip, especially Deir al-Balah, " Village of Dates ", is known for its exceptionally sweet red dates.

It is for this reason that the oratory of Ptah who listens to prayers was built near the site of Deir el-Medina, the village where the workers and crafstmen were confined.

The severity of these difficulties is stressed by the fact that the first known labor strike in recorded history occurred during Year 29 of Ramesses III's reign, when the food rations for the Egypt's favoured and elite royal tomb-builders and artisans in the village of Set Maat her imenty Waset ( now known as Deir el Medina ), could not be provisioned.

In Western Thebes, Nefertari is mentioned on a statuary group from Deir el-BAhari, a stela and blocks from Deir el-Medina.

Dayr al-Qassi ' or Deir el-Qasi () is a former Palestinian village located 26 km northeast of the city of Acre.

For example, the Deir Yassin massacre is considered to have generated more panic among the Arab population than all other previous operations together and to have caused a mass flight of Palestinians in numerous areas, partly because the actual events at Deir Yassin were greatly embellished by the media.

Arab League chief Azzam Pasha is one record for starting that, ' The massacre of Deir Yassin was to a great extent the cause of the wrath of the Arab nations and the most important factor for sending the Arab armies '.

" In Morris ' first book, he states that " rapes and mutilations " occurred at Deir Yassin ; but in subsequent books, Morris adds " but we don't know if this is true.

His decision not to use the testimony of Israeli veterans is unfortunate, since some of them have spoken candidly about Israeli atrocities and expulsion of civilians at Deir Yassin, Lydda – Ramle and Jaffa.

The era of the gods of Kiboreia is not certain, as is their location which is not conclusively to be identified with Deir al-Achayer, but was possibly the Roman sanctuary or the name of a settlement in the area.

Deir el-Medina () is an ancient Egyptian village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th dynasties of the New Kingdom period ( ca.

However, in early 2006, the Tomb of the Southern Vizier Padiamonet, son of Pamiu, was discovered in the third Upper Terrace of Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary Temple at Deir El-Bahari by the Polish Mission for the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology.

His Year 1 and Year 2 is attested by Papyrus Turin 1932 + 1939 while his third Year is documented in a diary kept by a Workmen of Deir El Medina.

Image: Armenian Genocide Museum in Der Zor Syria. jpg | The Armenian Genocide Memorial in Deir ez Zor