Al-Hafar, Syria
Al-Hafar
ܐܚܦܪ الحفر | |
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Village | |
  Al-Hafar Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 34°15′8″N 36°54′14″E / 34.25222°N 36.90389°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Homs |
| District | Homs |
| Subdistrict | Sadad |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 589 |
| Time zone | UTC 2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | 3 |
Al-Hafar (Syriac: ܐܚܦܪ, Arabic: الحفر, romanized: al-Ḥafr, also spelled al-Hafr) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, south of Homs. It is situated in the Syrian Desert, located south of Sadad, west of Huwwarin and northeast of Qarah. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Hafar had a population of 589 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Syriac Christians of Aramean (Syriac) descent, and some of them still speak Aramaic as a second language.[2][3]
See also
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[edit]- ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ "The aramaic Villages".
- ^ Batatu, Hanna (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. pp. 14, 356. ISBN 0691002541.
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