Wadi al-Nasara (
Arabic: وادي النصارى /
ALA-LC: Wādī an-Naṣārá, which both mean "Valley of Christians") is an area in western
Syria that administratively belongs to the
governorate of Homs.
The area of Wadi-Al Nasara is ecclesiastically under the
Archdiocese of
Akkar, which has its seat in
Cheikh Taba, Lebanon.[1] The current Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan of Akkar and Wadi al-Nasara and its dependencies (
Safita and
Tartus) is Mgr Basilius Mansour.[2]
^Obituary of
Adele Hendricks Abraham (1923-2019), aunt of Murray Abraham, where it is stated she, three of her sisters and her brother Fred Abraham were born in Myklos, in today's Syria. Obituary of
Marion Abraham Unsell (1914-1998), aunt of Murray Abraham, who died in El Paso in 1988 where it says she was born in Myklos in today's Syria