Ashrafiyat al-Wadi

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Ashrafiyat al-Wadi
أشرفية الوادي
Village
Ashrafiyat al-Wadi is located in Syria
Ashrafiyat al-Wadi
Ashrafiyat al-Wadi
Coordinates: 33°35′12″N 36°11′35″E / 33.586734°N 36.193068°E / 33.586734; 36.193068
Country Syria
GovernorateRif Dimashq
DistrictQudsaya
SubdistrictQudsaya
Population
 (2004 census)[1]
 • Total2,101
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Ashrafiyat al-Wadi (Arabic: أشرفية الوادي) is a village adjacent to the town of Qudsaya and just north of the Mezzeh district of Damascus in Syria. The village is administratively part of the Qudsaya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria. Nearby localities include al-Hamah to the east, the affluent suburbs of al-Sabboura and Yaafour to the west and Dahiyat Qudsaya and Jdeidat al-Wadi to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Ashrafiyat al-Wadi had a population of 2,101 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-12-21 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 147

Bibliography[edit]

  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.


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