Yarmouk Explained

The Yarmouk River (or Yarmuk River) is the largest tributary of the Jordan River.

Yarmouk or Yarmuk may also refer to:

History

• Battle of Yarmouk, a major battle between Arab Muslim forces and the armies of the Eastern Roman-Byzantine Empire in 636
• Yarmukian culture, a Neolithic archaeological culture of the ancient Levant
• Yarmouk munitions factory explosion, an alleged Israeli air strike against a munitions factory in Sudan in October 2012

Sport

• Al-Yarmouk SC (Syria), a Syrian professional sports-football club founded in 1925
• Al-Yarmouk FC (Jordan), a Jordanian football club founded in 1959
• Al-Yarmouk SC (Kuwait), a Kuwaiti professional sports-football club founded in 1965
• Al Yarmuk Al Rawda, a Yemeni football club founded in 1978
• Al-Yarmouk (Libya), a Libyan football club

Education

• Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, a hospital and part of a medical college, founded in 1964 in Baghdad, Iraq
• Yarmouk University, a state university founded in 1976 in Irbid, Jordan
• Al Yarmouk University College, a private Iraqi university founded in 1996 in Diyala, Iraq

Places

• Yarmouk Camp, a district in Damascus, Syria, populated by Palestinian refugees
• Yarmouk Military Industrial Complex, Khartoum, Sudan
• Yarmouk, Baghdad, an upscale neighborhood in Iraq
• Yarmouk, Kuwait, a suburb of the capital of Kuwait
• Yarmouk, al-Hasakah Governorate, a town in the al-Hasakah Governorate of Syria
• Yarmouk, Israel, a ruin believed to be the biblical Jarmuth

Other

• Yarmuk Jamaat, an Islamic extremist organization connected to numerous terrorist attacks, according to the Russian Federal Security Service