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Village in Hama, Syria
Muraywid مريود
Village
Muraywid is located in SyriaMuraywidMuraywidLocation in Syria
Coordinates: 35°15′27″N 36°50′20″E / 35.25750°N 36.83889°E / 35.25750; 36.83889
Country Syria
GovernorateHama
DistrictHama
SubdistrictHama
Population
 • Total750
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya PcodeN/A

Muraywid (Arabic: مريود; also transliterated Mreiwid) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located northeast of Hama city. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Muraywid had a population of 750 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Alawites.

History

Muraywid was sold by a sheikh of the Bani Khalid, a semi-Bedouin tribe of central Syria, to the prominent Azm family of Hama city in 1900. Its inhabitants were Alawite tenant farmers who were settled there in the 1920s or early 1930s.

References

  1. "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. Comité de l'Asie française 1933, pp. 132–133.

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