What is "yakubiyah"

Yakubiyah (, ; also spelled Yacoubiyah, Yakoubieh, Yacoubeh or Yaqubiyah) is a village in north-west Syria, administratively part of the Jisr ash-Shugur District, subordinate to the Idlib Governorate, located west of Idlib and just southeast of the border with Turkey. It is situated in a well-forested mountain above the Orontes River, with an elevation of 480 meters above sea level. Nearby localities include Qunaya adjacent to the east, Kafr Debbin further to the east, the nahiyah ("subdistrict") center of al-Janudiyah to the south, al-Malnad to the west and Zarzur to the north.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Yakubiyah had a population of 476 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are mostly Christians, roughly split into the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic denominations. The surrounding areas are predominantly inhabited by Sunni Muslims. There are two Armenian Apostolic churches in Yacoubiyah: Saint Anna and Saint Hripsime . The last one is built similar to Ejmiatsin’s Saint Hripsime. There is also one Armenian Catholic church.