http://www.economist.com/node/16276817 Dubbed “Little Venezuela”, the southern Syrian town of Sweida offers arepa bread, roads named after Latin American revolutionary leaders and visits from Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez. It has long been known for its Hispanic influence, thanks to generations of Syrians and Lebanese who left in the 19th and 20th centuries to work in South America and who have periodically returned. نسخة محفوظة 2017-08-11 على موقع واي باك مشين.
Landis، Joshua (1998). Philipp، T؛ Schäbler، B (المحررون). "Shishakli and the Druzes: Integration and intransigence". The Syrian Land: Processes of Integration and Fragmentation. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ص. 369–96. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2013-07-24.
Landis، Joshua (1998). Philipp، T؛ Schäbler، B (المحررون). "Shishakli and the Druzes: Integration and intransigence". The Syrian Land: Processes of Integration and Fragmentation. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ص. 369–96. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2013-07-24.
http://www.economist.com/node/16276817 Dubbed “Little Venezuela”, the southern Syrian town of Sweida offers arepa bread, roads named after Latin American revolutionary leaders and visits from Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez. It has long been known for its Hispanic influence, thanks to generations of Syrians and Lebanese who left in the 19th and 20th centuries to work in South America and who have periodically returned. نسخة محفوظة 2017-08-11 على موقع واي باك مشين.
p. 193: And the Syrian town of Sweida is known as "Little Venezuela" نسخة محفوظة 15 ديسمبر 2019 على موقع واي باك مشين.
