Al-Aliyat

Al-'Aliyat
العاليات
Village
Al-'Aliyat
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°32′32″N 36°49′48″E / 34.54222°N 36.83000°E / 34.54222; 36.83000Coordinates: 34°32′32″N 36°49′48″E / 34.54222°N 36.83000°E / 34.54222; 36.83000
Country  Syria
Governorate Homs
District Homs
Subdistrict Homs
Population (2004)
 • Total 532
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Al-'Aliyat (Arabic: العاليات‎, also spelled Alyat) is a village in the Homs Governorate in central Syria, located southeast of Homs on the western fringes of the Syrian Desert. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-'Aliyat had a population of 532 in 2004.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.[2]

In April 1924, during French Mandatory rule, followers of Sulayman al-Murshid killed a number of people in al-'Aliyat for not converting to al-Murshid's strain of Alawite Islam. French forces confronted al-Murshid's disciples, who were armed mostly with sticks, and fifty of them were killed, while another fifty were wounded. Al-Murshid was exiled to Raqqa in the aftermath of the clashes.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. 1 2 Seale, Patrick. Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East. p. 21.
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