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Village in Hama, Syria
Jinan الجنان
Village
Jinan is located in SyriaJinanJinanLocation in Syria
Coordinates: 35°4′58″N 36°50′27″E / 35.08278°N 36.84083°E / 35.08278; 36.84083
Country Syria
GovernorateHama
DistrictHama
SubdistrictHama
Population
 • Total3,860
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya PcodeC2972

Jinan (Arabic: الجنان, romanizedal-Jinān) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate. It is located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) east of Hama and 25 kilometers (16 mi) west of Salamiyah.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jinan had a population of 3,860 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslim Arabs. As of 2009, they mainly relied economically on agriculture, particularly vegetables, especially dried mallow (khubbayza), as well as pomegranates and grapes. The other main trade in the village was motorcycle repair.

History

Jinan was abandoned or no longer cultivated by 1800 and this state of affairs was again acknoweldged in an 1805 Ottoman government record. That year, the village was granted by the governor Abdullah Pasha al-Azm to his relative Nasuh Pasha al-Azm as a malikane (lifetime tax farm). By 1829, it had been repopulated and was listed as a tax-paying village. The scholar Eli Smith counted Jinan as the only inhabited place in the district of Salamiyah in 1838, noting its inhabitants to be Sunni Muslims. That year, the village had been settled by formerly sheepherding Bedouins.

References

  1. ^ Al-Qasir, Mohammed (6 August 2009). "Al-Jinan Village: The Mother of the Lost Waterwheels". e-Syria (in Arabic). Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  2. "General Census of Population 2004".
  3. ^ Douwes & Lewis 1992, p. 274.
  4. Douwes 2000, p. 170, note 64.
  5. Douwes 2000, p. 207, note 57.

Bibliography

Hama Governorate
Hama District
Hama
Subdistrict
Hirbnafsah
Subdistrict
Suran
Subdistrict
Hamraa
Subdistrict
Hama Governorate within Syria
Hama Governorate
Al-Suqaylabiyah District
Al-Suqaylabiyah
Subdistrict
Shathah
Subdistrict
Tell Salhab
Subdistrict
Ziyarah
Subdistrict
Qalaat al-Madiq
Subdistrict
Masyaf District
Masyaf
Subdistrict
Awj
Subdistrict
Ayn Halaqim
Subdistrict
Jubb Ramlah
Subdistrict
Wadi al-Uyun
Subdistrict
Mahardah District
Mahardah
Subdistrict
Kafr Zita
Subdistrict
Karnaz
Subdistrict
Salamiyah District
Salamiyah
Subdistrict
Barri
Subdistrict
Sabburah
Subdistrict
Uqayribat
Subdistrict
Saan
Subdistrict
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