Basatin al-Assad

Basatin al-Assad

بساتين الأسد
Basatin al-Assad بساتين الأسد
Village
	Basatin al-Assad
	Coordinates: 35°7′55″N 35°57′26″E / 35.13194°N 35.95722°E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Tartus
District	Baniyas
Subdistrict	Baniyas
Population (2004)
• Total	3,228
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Basatin al-Assad (Arabic: بساتين الأسد) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located north of Tartus. Nearby localities include Baniyas to the north, to the southeast and al-Bayda to the south. It is situated just east of the Mediterranean coast.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Basatin al-Assad had a population of 3,288 in the 2004 census.^[1] The inhabitants of Basatin al-Assad, as well as Baniyas city, al-Bayda and Marqab, are predominantly Sunni Muslims, in contrast to much of the area which is largely inhabited by members of the Alawite community.^[2]

References[]

^ ^a ^b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. (in Arabic)
^ Holliday, Joseph. The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency to Civil War. Middle East Security Report 8. Institute for the Study of War. March 2013.

[CBS-1] General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. (in Arabic)

[2] Holliday, Joseph. The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency to Civil War. Middle East Security Report 8. Institute for the Study of War. March 2013.

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