Al-Mushrifah

Al-Mushrifah
المشرفة
Al-Mishirfeh
Village
Al-Mushrifah

Location in Syria

Coordinates: 34°50′04″N 36°51′03″E / 34.834479°N 36.850971°E / 34.834479; 36.850971
Country Syria
Governorate Homs
District Homs
Subdistrict Ayn al-Niser
Population (2004)
  Total 14,868
Time zone EET (UTC+3)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+2)

Al-Mushrifah (Arabic: المشرفة, also spelled al-Mishirfeh, el-Mishrife or Musharrfeh) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located northeast of Homs. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Niser, Umm al-Amad and al-Mukharram to the east, al-Sukhnah to the south and Talbiseh, al-Ghantu and Teir Maalah to the west. Outside the modern town is Tell el-Mishrife, the site of the ancient city-state of Qatna.

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Mushrifah had a population of 14,868 in the 2004 census.[1] It has a religiously mixed population of Sunni Muslims, Alawites and Christians. The village contains several mosques and two churches.[2]

In the 1950s, under the influence of the Syrian Communist Party, some of the peasants of al-Mushrifah rose against their landlord by seizing his harvest.[3]

References

  1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. (Arabic)
  2. Halabi, Alaa (2015-01-04). "Battles continue in Homs countryside". As-Safir (Al-Monitor).
  3. Batatu, 1999, p. 121.

Bibliography

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