Gharios

Gharios (in Arabic غاريوس, in Greek Γαρíος, pronounced Ghariyos) is the name of Saint Gurias the Ascetic of Edessa (Today Rouha also known as Orfa or Sanliourfa in Turkey), martyr of the 4th century. He died in 305 AD.

It is also the name of a Lebanese family, originally from the southern suburbs of Beirut.

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