Ayn Dabish (Arabic: عين دابش, also transliterated Ain Dabesh or Ein Dabesh) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located southeast of Tartus. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Mitras had a population of 1,485 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants at least in the 1930s and 1940s were Christians,[2] though the village may currently be religiously mixed (the neighboring villages are largely populated by Alawites and the neighboring village of al-Mitras is inhabited by Sunni Muslims).[3]
Ayn Dabish
عين دابش Ein Dabesh | |
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Village | |
  Ayn Dabish Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 34°46′43″N 36°9′41″E / 34.77861°N 36.16139°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Tartus |
| District | Safita |
| Subdistrict | Al-Sisiniyah |
| Population (2004 census) | |
| • Total | 1,485 |
References
edit- ^ "Al-Sisiniyah Nahiyah Population". Syria Central Bureau of Statistics. 2004. Archived from the original on 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2012-07-02.. Archive:
- ^ Batatu 1999, p. 119.
- ^ Balanche 2000, p. 86.
Sources
edit- Balanche, Fabrice (2000). "Les Alaouites, l'espace et le pouvoir dans la région côtière syrienne : une intégration nationale ambiguë" (in French). Tours: Université François Rabelais. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- Batatu, Hanna (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691002541.