Bashraghi (Arabic: بشراغي) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District of the Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Bashraghi had a population of 657 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are Alawites and it is the historic home of the Bashaghira (also Bechargas) tribe, a faction of the Matawira confederation which took a leading part in the Alawite Revolt against French rule in 1920.[2][3]
Bashraghi
بشراغي | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Bashraghi Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 35°17′53″N 36°5′59″E / 35.29806°N 36.09972°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Latakia |
| District | Jableh |
| Subdistrict | Al-Qutailibiyah |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 657 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
References
edit- ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Bou-Nacklie 1993, p. 657, note 6.
- ^ Balanche 2000, p. 497.
Sources
edit- Balanche, Fabrice (2000). "Les Alaouites, l'espace et le pouvoir dans la région côtière syrienne : une intégration nationale ambiguë" (in French). Tours: Université François Rabelais. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- Bou-Nacklie, N. E. (1993). "Les Troupes Spéciales: Religious and Ethnic Recruitment, 1916–1946". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 25: 645–660. doi:10.1017/S0020743800059304.