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Jisr al-Shughur

جسر الشغور, Italy

Jisr ash-Shughūr (Arabic: جِسْرُ ٱلشُّغُورِ, romanized: jisr aš-šuġūr, pronounced [dʒɪsr aʃ.ʃuˈɣuːr], also rendered as Jisser ash-Shughour and other spellings), known in antiquity as Seleucobelus (Greek: Σελευκόβηλος, romanized: Seleukóbēlos), is a city in the Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria

. Situated at an altitude of 170 metres (560 ft) above sea level on the Orontes River. The city was the headquarters of the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria during the civil war.

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