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Village in Hama, Syria
Al-Khula الخلاKhala
Village
Al-Khula is located in SyriaAl-KhulaAl-KhulaLocation in Syria
Coordinates: 35°10′43″N 36°53′47″E / 35.17861°N 36.89639°E / 35.17861; 36.89639
Country Syria
GovernorateHama
DistrictHama
SubdistrictHama
Population
 • Total457
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya PcodeC2959

Al-Khula (Arabic: الخلا, romanizedal-Khulā; also transliterated Khala or al-Khulla) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, loacted east of Hama city. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Khula had a population of 457 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.

History

Al-Khula was sold by a sheikh of the Bani Khalid, a Bedouin tribe of central Syria, to the Barazi, a prominent landowning family of Hama city, sometime during the first thirty years of the 20th century. Its inhabitants were Alawite tenant farmers who were settled there in the 1920s or early 1930s.

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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