Al-Hamidiyah

Al Hamidiyah (Arabic: الحميدية‎) is a toun on the coastal Sirie line aboot 3km frae the Lebanese border. The toun wis foondit in a vera short time on direct orders frae the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II circa 1897, tae serve as refuge for the Muslim Cretans, Greek Muslims an Cretan Turks, who wur forcit tae leave Crete when the island stop being a pairt o the Ottoman Empire. The toun is hame tae aboot 8.000 fowk, wi the majority still speakin Cretan Greek in their daily lives.

Al Hamidiyah الحميدية
Al Hamidiyah Location in Sirie
Coordinates: 34°43′N 35°56′E
Country	Sirie
Govrenorate	Tartus Govrenorate
Destrict	Tartus Destrict
Population  (2008)
• Total	8,000 est.
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3

See an aw

• Cretan Turks
• Greek Muslims
• Greeks in Sirie
• Crete
• History o Crete