Tiyas (, also known as al-Safa ) is a village in central

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, administratively part of the

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, east of

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. It is situated in the

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, and the closest localities are

Tadmur Palmyra (; ; Palmyrene: ''Tadmor'') is a city in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate. It is located in an oasis in the middle of the Syrian Desert northeast of Damascus and southwest of the Euphrates River. The ruin ...

(

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) to the east, the subdistrict center of

al-Qaryatayn Al-Qaryatayn (), also spelled Karyatayn, Qaratin or Cariatein, is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate located southeast of Homs. It is situated on an oasis in the Syrian Desert. Nearby localities include Tadmu ...

to the southwest,

Furqlus Furqlus (, , Furglus or Furklus) is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, east of the city of Homs. Situated at the eastern approaches of the Syrian Desert, the town is located between al-Qaryatayn to the south, S ...

to the west and

Uqayribat Uqayribat ( ALA-LC: ''ʿUqayribāt'') also spelled ''Oqeirbat'', ''Uzeiribat'', ''′Aqayrbat'', ''′Agareb'', ''Aaqerbate'', ''Occariba'' or ''Occaraba'' is a Syrian town in the Uqayribat Subdistrict of the Salamiyah District in Hama Governorate. ...

to the northwest. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tiyas had a population of 2,564 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. Tiyas is also near the

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base of the same name which lies just to the southwest. During the 1970s and 1980s, the

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was given access to the

Tiyas Military Airbase The Tiyas Air Base, also known as the T-4 Air base, is a former Syrian Air Force base located in the Homs Governorate, north of Tiyas, and west of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria. Tiyas is the largest airbase in Syria. History During the ...

for the periodical deployment of naval aircraft. The base at Tiyas was also used to patrol the

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' naval fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.Tatum, 2002, p. 26.

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* * Populated places in Homs District {{HomsSY-geo-stub