Jubbayn

Jubbayn
جبين
Jbine, Jabin
Town
Jubbayn is located in Syria
Jubbayn
Jubbayn
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°20′17″N 36°30′48″E / 35.33806°N 36.51333°E / 35.33806; 36.51333
Country Syria
GovernorateHama
DistrictMahardah
SubdistrictKarnaz
Population
 (2004)
 • Total
3,488
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya PcodeC3466

Jubbayn (Arabic: جبين) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Karnaz Subdistrict of the Mahardah District of Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jubbayn had a population of 3,488 in the 2004 census.[1] The inhabitants of Jubbayn are Sunni Muslims.[2]

History

Jubbayn was settled in 1921 by the Smathie, a breakaway tribe of the Mawali, a semi-nomadic Bedouin confederation in northwestern and central Syria, who were brought in to cultivate the village lands by the owners, the Baroudi family of Hama city.[2]

References

  1. ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. ^ a b Comité de l'Asie française 1933, p. 131.

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