Jaramanah
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Jaramana (Arabic: جرمانا) is a city in the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria. Its location, 10 Kilometers southeast of Damascus, makes it a bustling town of the Syrian capital, with Christian and Druze majority.
There is also a Palestinian refugee camp near the town bearing its same name. Jaramana is also a favorite destination for Iraqi Assyrians fleeing their unstable country as well. In October 2006, the Assyrian community in Jaramana finally received a priest from Mosul, Iraq. The priest, Arkan Hana Hakim, claims there are now 2000 Assyrian Iraqis in Jaramana alone. [1]
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| 1The UNRWA definition of a "Palestinian refugee" is a person "whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict." "UNRWA's definition of a refugee also covers the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948." (UNRWA) |

