Adimeh or al-'Adimah () is a village in northwestern

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administratively part of the

Baniyas District Baniyas District () is a district of the Tartus Governorate in northwestern Syria. Administrative centre is the city of Baniyas. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 174,233. The estimated population of the Alawites of the Baniyas ...

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. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Adimeh had a population of 1,408 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly

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s. Some of its resident's were displaced during the Syrian Civil War, and since the conflict's conclusion in December 2024 at least 146 people have returned to their homes. This figure only includes

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and not refugees. Near Adimeh, there is a

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called

Burj al-Sabi Burj (, ''tower'', derived from either Middle Persian "burg" or Greek loan-word "pyrgos"), el-Burj, Al Burj, may refer to: Places India * Burj Kaila, a village in Jalandhar district, Punjab, India * Burj Pukhta, a village in Jalandhar district, Pu ...

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* Populated places in Baniyas District {{TartusSY-geo-stub