Dimu (, also spelled ''Demo'') is a

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n village located in the

Jubb Ramlah Subdistrict Jubb Ramlah Subdistrict () is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in Masyaf District in Hama Hama ( ', ) is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria. It is located north of Damascus and north of Homs. It is the ...

of the

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, 43 kilometers west of

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. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Dimu had a population of 1,102 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly

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, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
180
/ref> A municipal council was established to administer Dimu in 1995. Most of Dimu's working population is employed in agriculture, with the principal crops being potatoes, wheat, cotton, and summer vegetables. There is a primary school in the village.

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* Populated places in Masyaf District {{HamaSY-geo-stub