Alqin
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Village in Tartus, Syria
Alqin
علقين | |
|---|---|
Village | |
Alqin is located in Syria Alqin Alqin | |
| Coordinates: 35°8′51′′N 35°57′59′′E / 35.14750°N 35.96639°E / 35.14750; 35.96639 | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | Tartus |
| District | Baniyas |
| Subdistrict | Baniyas |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
• Total | 564 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Alqin (Arabic: علقين) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Baniyas District of the Tartus Governorate, located southeast of Baniyas. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Alqin had a population of 564 in the 2004 census.[1] The inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.[2]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Deprecated link archived 2013年01月12日 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Balanche 2000, p. 86.
Sources
[edit ]- Balanche, Fabrice (2000). "Les Alaouites, l'espace et le pouvoir dans la région côtière syrienne : une intégration nationale ambiguë" (in French). Tours: Université François Rabelais. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
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