Ayn al-Sharqiyah ( ar, عين الشرقية, also spelled Ain esh-Sharqiye) is a town in northwestern
Syria, administratively part of the
Jableh District
Jableh District ( ar-at, منطقة جبلة, manṭiqat Jablah) is a district of the Latakia Governorate in northwestern Syria. Administrative centre is the city of Jableh. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 196,171.
Agricult ...
in the
Latakia Governorate
Latakia Governorate, also transliterated as Ladhakia Governorate, ( ar, مُحافظة اللاذقية / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat al-Lādhiqīyah'') is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Turkey's Hata ...
, located southeast of
Latakia. Nearby localities include
Siyano
Siyannu ( ar, سيانو) is a Syrian village in Jableh District in Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Siyannu had a population of 4,784 in the 2004 census.
History
Siyannu, which was also known as U ...
to the northwest,
Zama to the north,
Ayn al-Kurum Ayn may refer to:
* Ayin or , a letter in many Semitic scripts
* Ayn, Savoie, a commune of the Savoie département of France
* Ghayn (Cyrillic) (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Bashkir, Kazakh, and Tajik alphabets
* Ayn Rand, Russian-born American no ...
to the northeast,
Beit Yashout to the east,
Nahr al-Bared
Nahr al-Bared ( ar, نهر البارد, literally: Cold River) is a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, 16 km from the city of Tripoli. Some 30,000 displaced Palestinians and their descendants live in and around the camp, which ...
to the southeast,
Daliyah
Daliyah ( ar, الدالية) is a Syrian village in the Jableh District
Jableh District ( ar-at, منطقة جبلة, manṭiqat Jablah) is a district of the Latakia Governorate in northwestern Syria. Administrative centre is the city of Jabl ...
to the south,
Dweir Baabda
Dweir Baabda ( ar, دوير بعبده, Duwayr Ba'bda or Duweir Baabda) is a village in northwestern Syria administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located southeast of Latakia. It is situated off a secondary road, at the summit of a mou ...
,
Baniyas and
Arab al-Mulk to the southwest. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Ayn al-Sharqiyah had a population of 2,359 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a ''
nahiyah
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
'' ("sub-district") containing 22 localities which had a collective population of 16,800 in 2004.
[General Census of Population and Housing 2004](_blank)
. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly
Alawites
The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isl ...
.
References
Populated places in Jableh District
Towns in Syria
Alawite communities in Syria
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