Hamin, Syria

Not to be confused with Hamin, Iran.

Hamin (Arabic: حمين, romanized: Hamīn) is a Syrian village in the Duraykish District in Tartous Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hamin had a population of 2,222 in the 2004 census. It is the center of the Hamin nahiya (subdistrict), which had a population of 9,922.^[1] The inhabitants of the village and the subdistrict are Alawites, predominantly from the Matawira tribal confederation.^[2]

Hamin حمين
Village
Hamin Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°54′4″N 36°2′24″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Tartus
District	Duraykish
Subdistrict	Hamin
Population  (2004)
• Total	2,222
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)
City Qrya Pcode	C5607

References

1. "General Census of Population 2004" (in Arabic). Retrieved 2017-10-20.
2. Balanche 2000, p. 152.

Sources

• Balanche, Fabrice (2000). "Les Alaouites, l'espace et le pouvoir dans la région côtière syrienne : une intégration nationale ambiguë" (in French). Tours: Université François Rabelais. Retrieved 20 October 2024.