Qurfays
Qurfays (Arabic: القطيلبية, spelt Qurfeis or Korfeis) is a veelage in northwastren Sirie, admeenistratively pairt o the Jableh Destrict in the Latakia Govrenorate, locatit sooth o Latakia. Nearbi localities include Arab al-Mulk tae the wast, Jableh tae the northwast, al-Aqibah an al-Qutailibiyah to the northeast, Dweir Baabda tae the sootheast. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, Qurfays haed a population o 5,566 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites an is ane o the centres o the lairge Douba faimily. Ali Douba, the umwhile langtime Chief o Militar Intelligence.[2]
Qurfays قرفيص | |
|---|---|
Veelage | |
  Qurfays | |
| Coordinates: 35°15′59″N 35°59′19″E / 35.26639°N 35.98861°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Latakia Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Jableh Destrict |
| Nahiyah | Al-Qutailibiyah |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
| • Total | 799 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The municipality o Qurfays wis establisht in 1979 tae admeenister the local affairs o the veelage as well as nearbi al-Barazin, al-Zahra, Bishnana an Mahwarta. Thare are aboot 7,000 fowk livin in the municipality whose mayor in 2008 wis Abdullah Ehsan.[3]
History
eeditQurfays servit as minor fortress veelage unner the authority o the Knichts Hospitallers fortress o Margat in the 13t-century an wis referred tae as Corveis.[4] In 1271 the Mamluk sultan Baibars defeatit the Crusaders in the coastal muntain range o Sirie an forcit the Hospitallers tae evacuate Qurfays, amang ither fortresses.[5] Housomeivver, afore they athdrew, they destroyed Qurfays an nearbi Balda.[5][6] In the 1281 treaty atween Mamluk sultan Qalawun an the Crusader king Bohemond IV o Antioch, Qurfays wis amang the mony fortresses officially haundit tae the Mamluks.[7]
References
eedit- ↑ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Latakia Govrenorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ Batatu, 1992, p. 240.
- ↑ Khatib, Sharaf.Municipality Qrfais and Wide Range of Services and Suffering from Lack of Central Lines for Sanitation Archived 2012-07-30 at Archive.today. Unity Foundation for Press, Printing and Publishing. 2008-09-14.
- ↑ Riley-Smith, 2012, p. 91.
- ↑ a b Riley-Smith, 2012, p. 211.
- ↑ Bronstein, 2005, p. 44.
- ↑ Holt, 1995, p. 63.
Bibliografie
eedit- Batatu, Hanna (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691002541.
- Bronstein, Judith (2005). The Hospitallers And The Holy Land: Financing The Latin East, 1187-1274. Boydell Press. ISBN 1843831317.
- Holt, Peter Malcolm (1995). Early Mamluk Diplomacy, 1260-1290: Treaties of Baybars and Qalāwūn with Christian Rulers. BRILL. pp. 149–150. ISBN 9004102469.
- Riley-Smith, Jonathan (2012). The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, C.1070-1309. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0230290833.[deid airtin]