Dweir Baabda
Dweir Baabda (Arabic: دوير بعبده, Duwayr Ba'bda or Duweir Baabda) is a veelage in northwastren Sirie admeenistratively pairt o the Latakia Govrenorate, locatit sootheast o Latakia.
It is situatit aff a seicontary road, at the summit o a muntain in the coastal Nusayriyah Range an haes an elevation o ower 700 metres abuin sea level. Nearbi localities include Daliyah tae the east, Baabda tae the sooth, Baniyas tae the soothwast, Qurfays tae the wast, Jableh tae the northwast, al-Qassabin tae the north an Ayn al-Sharqiyah tae the northeast. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS), Dweir Baabda haed a population o 2,529 in 2004. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.
Dweir Baabda دوير بعبده | |
|---|---|
Veelage | |
  Dweir Baabda Location in Sirie | |
| Coordinates: 35°33′50″N 36°6′0″E / 35.56389°N 36.10000°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Latakia Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Jableh Destrict |
| Nahiyah | Al-Qutailibiyah |
| Elevation | 700 m (2,300 ft) |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 2,529 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The ruins o a monastery datin to the Byzantine era is present in the veelage. Dweir Baabda is a landwart veelage whose inhabitants engage mucklely in agricultur, cultivatin tobacco, olives an apples. It serves as a centre o sorts for some o the neebourin localities, providin halth care an pharmaceutical services. It contains the anerlie major maw in the vicinity an aw. Schuils began bein built in Dweir Baabda in the 1920s. In the 1960s Dweir Baabda wis describit as a "lairge veelage." It currently spreads ower a muckle aurie.
Salah Jadid, the late strangman o Sirie who wis owerthrown bi Hafez al-Assad in 1970, wis born in Dweir Baabda.
References
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- Seale, Patrick (1990). Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520069763.
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