Al-Jayyid (, also spelled ''al-Jid'' or ''al-Jayyad'') is a village in northern

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

located in the

Qalaat al-Madiq Subdistrict Qalaat al-Madiq Subdistrict () is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama Hama ( ', ) is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria. It is located north of Damascus and north of Hom ...

of the

al-Suqaylabiyah District Al-Suqaylabiyah District ( ') is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 official census, the district had a population of 240,091. Its capital city, administrative centre is the city of al-Suqayla ...

Hama Governorate Hama Governorate ( / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥamā'') is one of the 14 Governorates of Syria, governorates of Syria. It is situated in western-central Syria, bordering Idlib Governorate, Idlib and Aleppo Governorates to the north, Raqqa Gove ...

. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Jayyid had a population of 2,242 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly

Alawites Alawites () are an Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, a sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ''ghulat'' branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate Ali ...

. As of April 2025, the village had a population of 2,986.

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Alawite communities in Syria Populated places in al-Suqaylabiyah District Populated places in al-Ghab Plain {{HamaSY-geo-stub