Ayn al-Niser ( ar, عين النسر, also spelled Ain al-Nisr or Ayni-Nasir) is a town in central
Syria, administratively part of the
Homs Governorate
Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in central Syria. Its area differs in various sources, from to . It is thus geographic ...
, located northeast of
Homs. Nearby localities include
al-Mishirfeh to the west,
Ayn al-Dananir Ayn may refer to:
* Ayin or , a letter in many Semitic scripts
* Ayn, Savoie, a commune of the Savoie département of France
* Ghayn (Cyrillic) (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Bashkir, Kazakh, and Tajik alphabets
* Ayn Rand, Russian-born American ...
to the northwest,
Izz al-Din to the north,
al-Mukharram al-Fawqani to the east and
Umm al-Amad to the southeast.
According to the
Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Ayn al-Niser had a population of 604 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center and 11th largest locality of the Ayn al-Niser ''
nahiyah
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
'' ("subdistrict") which consists of 16 localities with a collective population of 30,267.
[General Census of Population and Housing 2004](_blank)
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. The inhabitants of the village are ethnic
Circassians
The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia ...
from the
Shapsugh,
Kabardian and
Bzhedug
Bjedugh, Bzhedug or Bazdug ( ady, Бжъэдыгъу, ''Bjzədıuğ'', ; russian: Бжедуги, ) are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes.
Many of them immigrated to Turkey in the 1860s, but there is still a community of Bzhedug on the l ...
tribes.
[Jaimoukha, Amjad]
The Circassians of Syria: Opting for the Rightful Cause
''Circassian Voices''. 2012-07-12.
References
Populated places in Homs District
Towns in Syria
Circassian communities in Syria
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