Al-Tawahin

Al-Tawahin

الطواحين
Tawaheen
Al-Tawahin الطواحين Tawaheen
Town
	Al-Tawahin
	Coordinates: 35°7′44″N 36°13′19″E / 35.12889°N 36.22194°E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Tartus
District	Baniyas
Subdistrict	Tawahin
Population (2004 census)
• Total	2,238
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Al-Tawahin (Arabic: الطواحين, also spelled Tawaheen) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located east of Baniyas, northeast of al-Qadmus and northwest of Masyaf. It is situated in the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Tawahin had a population of 2,238 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Tawahin Subdistrict which contained nine localities with a collective population of 10,024 in 2004.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. (in Arabic)
^ Balanche, Fabrice (2006). La région alaouite et le pouvoir syrien (PDF) (in French). Karthala Editions. ISBN 2845868189.

[CBS-1] General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. (in Arabic)

[2] Balanche, Fabrice (2006). La région alaouite et le pouvoir syrien (PDF) (in French). Karthala Editions. ISBN 2845868189.

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