Beit Yashout ( ar, بَيْت يَاشُوط, Bayt Yāšūṭ) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the

Jableh District Jableh District ( ar-at, منطقة جبلة, manṭiqat Jablah) is a district of the Latakia Governorate in northwestern Syria. Administrative centre is the city of Jableh. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 196,171. Agricul ...

of the

Latakia Governorate Latakia Governorate, also transliterated as Ladhakia Governorate, ( ar, مُحافظة اللاذقية / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat al-Lādhiqīyah'') is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Turkey's H ...

, and located south of

Latakia , coordinates = , elevation_footnotes = , elevation_m = 11 , elevation_ft = , postal_code_type = , postal_code = , area_code = Country code: 963 City code: 41 , geocode ...

. Nearby localities include

Ayn al-Sharqiyah Ayn al-Sharqiyah ( ar, عين الشرقية, also spelled Ain esh-Sharqiye) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District in the Latakia Governorate, located southeast of Latakia. Nearby localities include Siyano t ...

to the west and

Daliyah Daliyah ( ar, الدالية) is a Syrian village in the Jableh District in Latakia Governorate Latakia Governorate, also transliterated as Ladhakia Governorate, ( ar, مُحافظة اللاذقية / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat al-Lādhiqīyah'' ...

to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Yashout had a population of 6,115 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. The town is located in the

An-Nusayriyah Mountains The Coastal Mountain Range ( ar, سلسلة الجبال الساحلية ''Silsilat al-Jibāl as-Sāḥilīyah'') also called Al-Anṣariyyah is a mountain range in northwestern Syria running north–south, parallel to the coastal plain.Federal ...

at an elevation of around 500 m (1,700 ft). Beit Yashout is one of the villages inhabited by the

Alawite The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Is ...

Hadadeen clan, to which former first lady Aniseh Makhluf belonged. However, the village was a traditional home of the Bani Ali clan, also Alawite. Beit Yashout is the hometown of

Muhammad al-Khuli Muhammad al-Khuli ( ar, محمد الخولي; born 1937) was a career officer in the Syrian Arab Air Force throughout Ba'athist rule in Syria and during the presidency of Hafez al-Assad. Early life Al-Khuli was born in Beit Yashout in 1937 to an ...

, a prominent military official in Baathist governments in the 1960s and throughout former president

Hafez al-Assad Hafez al-Assad ', , (, 6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman and military officer who served as President of Syria from taking power in 1971 until his death in 2000. He was also Prime Minister of Syria from 1970 to 19 ...

's time in office (1970–2000).Batatu, p. 219. Harama02

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* * {{Latakia Governorate, jableh Populated places in Jableh District Towns in Syria Alawite communities in Syria