Al-Hamah

Al-Hamah

الهامة
Al-Hamah الهامة
Village
	Al-Hamah
	Coordinates: 33°33′29″N 36°13′20″E / 33.55806°N 36.22222°E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Rif Dimashq
District	Qudsaya
Subdistrict	Qudsaya
Population (2004 census)
• Total	10,045
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Al-Hamah (Arabic: الهامة; also spelled al-Hameh) is a village on the Barada river in the Qudsaya District of Rif Dimashq (Damascus Countryside) in southern Syria. It is west of the Syrian capital of Damascus city, beyond Mount Qasioun, and is now an outlying suburb of greater Damascus. It is between Qudsaya to the south and Jamraya to the north.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Hamah had a population of 10,045 in the 2004 census.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims and Syriac Christians.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 147

Bibliography[edit]

Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.

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[CBS-1] General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)

[2] Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 147

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