Kafrun Badra

Kafrun Badra كفرون بدرة
Village
Kafrun Badra Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°50′55″N 36°14′48″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Tartus
District	Safita
Subdistrict	Mashta al-Helu
Population  (2004 census)[1]
• Total	302
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)

Kafrun Badra (كفرون بدرة; also spelled Kafroun Badra) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Safita District of the Tartous Governorate.

The anthropologist Fabrice Balanche noted that Kafrun Badra's population remained largely stagnant between 1960 and 1994, remaining approximately 340.[2] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kafrun Badra had a population of 302 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Christians.[2]

Kafrun Badra's first school, which was gender-mixed, was opened by the Russian Orthodox Imperial Palestine Society in 1887 with the sponsorship of the area's agha, Abu Mitri. The school is presently called the Martyr George Ramez Akkari School and as of 2022 it enrolled 122 students from the village and nearby Nabe Karkar.[3]

References

1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. (in Arabic)
2. Balanche 2000, p. 262.
3. Farah, Bayti (12 September 2022). "مدرسة "كفرون بدرة".. وحكاية جرن الحبر والريشة (Kafroun Badra School: And the Story of the Ink Jar and the Pen)". e-Syria (in Arabic). Retrieved 9 January 2025.

Sources

• 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.