Muzayraa

Muzayraa
مزيرعة
Mzeraa
Town
Mazirah
Muzayraa is located in Syria
Muzayraa
Muzayraa
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°31′52″N 36°4′16″E / 35.53111°N 36.07111°E / 35.53111; 36.07111
Country Syria
GovernorateLatakia
Districtal-Haffah
SubdistrictMuzayraa
Population
 (2004)
 • Total
834
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Muzayraa (Arabic: مزيرعة, romanized: Muzayri`ah, Mzera'a or Mazirah) is a town in northwestern Syria administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located east of Latakia. Nearby localities include Difa and Hanadi to the west, al-Jandiriyah to the northwest, al-Haffah and Ayn al-Tineh to the north, Slinfah to the northeast, Shathah to the east and Qardaha to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Muzayraa had a population was 834 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center and the fourth largest locality of the Muzayraa nahiyah ("subdistrict") which contained 27 localities with a collective population of 13,908 in 2004.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Christians.[2]

On 14 December 2024, former members of the Syrian Arab Army launched an attack in the settlement on Sham Corps members affiliated with the Syrian transitional government. The incident represents the first clash of it's kind since the collapse of the Assad regime.[3]

References

  1. ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ Balanche, 2006, p. 44.
  3. ^ "في حادثة هي الأولى من نوعها بعد سقوط النظام.. مقـ ـتل وإصابة 15 عنصراً من فصيل "فيلق الشام" بكمين نصبه مسلحون من فلول النظام بريف اللاذقية | المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان" [In an incident that is the first of its kind after the fall of the regime.. 15 members of the “Al-Sham Corps” faction were killed and injured in an ambush set up by armed men from the remnants of the regime in the Latakia countryside]. Syria HR (in Arabic). 2024-12-14. Retrieved 2024-12-14.

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