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Istamo () is a
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 ...
n village in the
Qardaha District Qardaha District () is a district of the Latakia Governorate in northwestern Syria. Administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central admin ...
in
Latakia Governorate Latakia Governorate ( / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat al-Lādhiqīyah''), also transliterated as Ladhakia, is one of the 14 Governorates of Syria, governorates of Syria. It is situated in northwestern Syria, bordering Turkey's Hatay Province to the no ...
. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Istamo had a population of 2,288 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are
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 ...
. The village was recorded in an Ottoman tax census in 1547 as having 1,272 inhabitants. In 1645–1646, no population was recorded living in the village, but it was noted that ten or so peasants from Istamo had temporarily fled into the mountains. In 1724, Istamo was among several places in the
Alawite Mountains The Coastal Mountain Range (, ''Silsilat al-Jibāl as-Sāḥilīyah'') also called Jabal al-Ansariya, Jabal an-Nusayria or Jabal al-`Alawīyin (Ansari, Nusayri or Alawi Mountains) is a mountain range in northwestern Syria running north–south, ...
where the local strongman Rustum Hasan Rustum was accused of pilfering taxes due to the state.


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Alawite communities in Syria Populated places in Qardaha District {{Syria-stub