Al-Zaynah

Al-Zaynah
الزينة
Village
Al-Zaynah

Location in Syria

Coordinates: 35°5′5″N 36°19′33″E / 35.08472°N 36.32583°E / 35.08472; 36.32583Coordinates: 35°5′5″N 36°19′33″E / 35.08472°N 36.32583°E / 35.08472; 36.32583
Country  Syria
Governorate Hama
District Masyaf
Subdistrict Masyaf
Population (2004)
  Total 983
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
City Qrya Pcode C3351

Al-Zaynah (Arabic: الزينة, also spelled Zeineh) is a Syrian village located in the Masyaf Subdistrict in Masyaf District, located west of Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Zaynah had a population of 983 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.[2]

Sometime in the early 20th century, Sulayman al-Wahhish of Qardaha, the grandfather of Hafez al-Assad and great-grandfather of Bashar al-Assad, mediated a dispute between the two main families of Zaynah when the local notable Muhammad Bey Junayd was unable to.[3]

References

  1. "General Census of Population 2004.". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. Boulanger, 1966, p. 450.
  3. Seale, 1990, p. 4

Bibliography

Seale, Patrick (1990), Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520069763 

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