Al-Bariqiyah

Al-Bariqiyah

Al-Bariqiyah

Town in Tartus, Syria

Al-Bariqiyah (Arabic: البارقية, also spelled Barqieh) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located southeast of Tartus. It is situated between Safita to the west, Mashta al-Helu to the north and the Wadi al-Nasara area to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Bariqiyah had a population of 3,627 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the al-Bariqiyah Subdistrict, which consisted of eight localities with a total population of 7,336.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. [2]
    Balanche, Fabrice (2006). La région alaouite et le pouvoir syrien (PDF) (in French). Karthala Editions. ISBN 2845868189.
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