Safsafiyah ( ar, صفصافية) is a
Syrian village located in the
Mahardah Subdistrict of the
Mahardah District
Mahardah District ( ar, محردة ') is a district ( mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 Census it had a population of 143,953. Its administrative centre is the city of Mahardah.
Sub-districts
The distri ...
in
Hama Governorate
Hama Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حماة / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥamā'') is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western-central Syria, bordering Idlib and Aleppo Governorates to the south, Raqqa Governorate to t ...
. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Safsafiyah had a population of 5,062 in the 2004 census.
Its inhabitants are predominantly
Alawites
The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isla ...
.
References
Alawite communities in Syria
Populated places in Mahardah District
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