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Bashar al-Assad

1965 to 2005 4 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Bashar al-Assad across 3 places, from 1965 to 2001. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born 11September 1965) is a Syrian former politician, doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Bashar al-Assad was documented, and when

11 September 1965exact date
Damascusattested “Bashar Hafez al-Assad was born in Damascus on 11 September 1965, as the second son and third child of Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad.” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad
1982year
Damascus Universityattested “In 1982, he graduated from high school and then studied medicine at Damascus University.” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad
1982year
Damascusattested “In 1982, he graduated from high school and then studied medicine at Damascus University.” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad
October 2001month
Syriaattested “During a state visit by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Syria in October 2001, Bashar publicly condemned the United States invasion of Afghanistan in a joint press conference, stating that "[w]e cannot accept what we see every day o…” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad

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Places Bashar al-Assad is documented in

Damascus2 presences · 1965 to 1982Syria1 presence · 2001
Damascus University1 presence · 1982

Other places tied to Bashar al-Assad in the record

In each of these, a source puts Bashar al-Assad and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Bashar al-Assad was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

January 1999month
Homs Military Academymentioned “To establish his credentials in the military, Bashar entered the military academy at Homs in 1994 and was propelled through the ranks to become a colonel of the elite Syrian Republican Guard in January 1999.” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad
January 1999month
Homsmentioned “To establish his credentials in the military, Bashar entered the military academy at Homs in 1994 and was propelled through the ranks to become a colonel of the elite Syrian Republican Guard in January 1999.” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad
December 2000month
Acton, Londonmentioned “In December 2000, Assad married Asma Akhras, a British citizen of Syrian origin from Acton, London.” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad
14 February 2005exact date
Beirutmentioned “On 14 February 2005, Rafic Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon, was assassinated in a massive truck-bomb explosion in Beirut, killing 22 people.” source: Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad

Documented at the same place, the same year

Pope John Paul IIDamascus · 2001Alois BrunnerDamascus · 2001Khaled MashalDamascus · 2001

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Sources

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