Mubarakat

Mubarakat
المباركات
Village
Mubarakat
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°7′19″N 36°51′44″E / 35.12194°N 36.86222°E / 35.12194; 36.86222
Country Syria
GovernorateHama
DistrictHama
SubdistrictHama
Population
 (2004)
 • Total
478
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya PcodeC2958

Mubarakat (Arabic: المباركات) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Mubarakat had a population of 478 in the 2005 census.[1] Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.

History

In the late 19th or early 20th century, Mubarakat was sold by the Ma'an family, which was part of a local Bedouin tribe, to the Barazi and Kaylani families, prominent landowners based in the city of Hama. Its inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arab tenant farmers.[2]

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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