Beit Yashout
بَيْت يَاشُوط | |
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Town | |
  Beit Yashout | |
| Coordinates: 35°19′1″N 36°7′49″E / 35.31694°N 36.13028°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Latakia |
| District | Jableh |
| Subdistrict | Beit Yashout |
| Elevation | 500 m (1,600 ft) |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
| • Total | 6,115 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Beit Yashout (Arabic: بَيْت يَاشُوط, romanized: Bayt Yāšūṭ) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District of the Latakia Governorate, and located south of Latakia. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Sharqiyah to the west and Daliyah to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Yashout had a population of 6,115 in the 2004 census.[1] The town is located in the An-Nusayriyah Mountains at an elevation of around 500 m (1,700 ft).
Beit Yashout is one of the villages inhabited by the Alawite Hadadeen clan, to which former first lady Aniseh Makhluf belonged.[2] However, the village was a traditional home of the Bani Ali clan, also Alawite.[3] Beit Yashout is the hometown of Muhammad al-Khuli, a prominent military official in Baathist governments in the 1960s and throughout former president Hafez al-Assad's time in office (1970–2000).[4]
