Deir Atiyah or Dayr Atiyah is a town in Syria, located between the Qalamoun Mountains and the Eastern Lebanon Mountains Series, 88 kilometres (55 mi) north of the capital Damascus and on the road to the city of Homs. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Deir Atiyah had a population of 10,984 in the 2004 census.
Syrians topple Hafez al-Assad statue in Dayr Atiyah
On December 9, a giant statue of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad was toppled in Dayr Atiyah, as Syrians took to the streets..
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