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Jurin () 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
Shathah Subdistrict Shathah 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 Homs. It is ...
of the Suqaylabiyah District in the
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), Jurin had a population of 2,326 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 ...
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Alawite communities in Syria Populated places in al-Suqaylabiyah District {{HamaSY-geo-stub