Awja al-Janah
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Awja al-Janah
عوجة الجنا | |
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Village | |
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| Country | File:Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Hama |
| Subdistrict | Hama |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 489 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | N/A |
Awja al-Janah (Arabic: عوجة الجنا; also spelled Awj al-Janah or A'waj al-Jana) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Awja al-Janah had a population of 489 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.
History
[edit | edit source]In the late 19th or early 20th centuries, Awja al-Janah was sold by the Bani Khalid, a partly Bedouin tribe in central Syria to the Barazi, a prominent landowning family from Hama. Its inhabitants were Sunni Muslim tenant farmers.[2]
References
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- ^ Comité de l'Asie française 1933, pp. 132–133.
Bibliography
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