Dweir Baabda
Dweir Baabda (Arabic: دوير بعبده, Duwayr Ba'bda or Duweir Baabda) is a veelage in northwastren Sirie admeenistratively pairt o the Latakia Govrenorate, locatit sootheast o Latakia. It is situatit aff a seicontary road, at the summit o a muntain in the coastal Nusayriyah Range an haes an elevation o ower 700 metres abuin sea level.[1] Nearbi localities include Daliyah tae the east, Baabda tae the sooth, Baniyas tae the soothwast, Qurfays tae the wast, Jableh tae the northwast, al-Qassabin tae the north an Ayn al-Sharqiyah tae the northeast. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS), Dweir Baabda haed a population o 2,529 in 2004.[2] Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.[3][4]
Dweir Baabda دوير بعبده | |
|---|---|
Veelage | |
  Dweir Baabda Location in Sirie | |
| Coordinates: 35°33′50″N 36°6′0″E / 35.56389°N 36.10000°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Latakia Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Jableh Destrict |
| Nahiyah | Al-Qutailibiyah |
| Elevation | 700 m (2,300 ft) |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 2,529 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The ruins o a monastery datin to the Byzantine era is present in the veelage. Dweir Baabda is a landwart veelage whose inhabitants engage mucklely in agricultur, cultivatin tobacco, olives an apples. It serves as a centre o sorts for some o the neebourin localities, providin halth care an pharmaceutical services. It contains the anerlie major maw in the vicinity an aw. Schuils began bein built in Dweir Baabda in the 1920s.[1] In the 1960s Dweir Baabda wis describit as a "lairge veelage."[5] It currently spreads ower a muckle aurie.[6]
Salah Jadid, the late strangman o Sirie who wis owerthrown bi Hafez al-Assad in 1970, wis born in Dweir Baabda.[3][4]
References
eedit- ↑ a b Ali, Samar. Dweir Baabda: "Charm in the Shadows of Nature". E-Latakia. E-Syria. 2008-12-06.
- ↑ General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2019-12-17 at the Wayback Machine. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ a b Batatu, 1999, p. 147.
- ↑ a b Seale, 1990, p. 63.
- ↑ Boulanger, 1966, p. 454.
- ↑ Lee, 2010, p. 137
Bibliografie
eedit- Hanna Batatu (1999). Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics (Illustrated ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691002541.
- Boulanger, Robert, ed. (1966). The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran. Hachette.
- Lee, Jess (2010). Syria Handbook. Footprint Travel Guides. ISBN 1907263039.
- Seale, Patrick (1990). Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520069763.