Sharqliyya ( ar, شرقلية, also spelled Sharqlieh) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located northwest of

Homs Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...

. Nearby localities include

al-Qabu Al-Qabu ( ar, القبو, "the vault, or cellar"), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. The name is an Arabic variation of the site's original Roman name, and the ruins of a church there are thought to date to the era of ...

and al-Shinyah to the west,

al-Taybah al-Gharbiyah Al-Taybah al-Gharbiyah ( ar, الطيبة الغربية, also spelled ''Teiba'' or ''Tayibeh al-Gharbiyeh'') is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, northwest of Homs. Nearby localities include al-Shinyah to ...

to the northwest, Taldou to the northeast and Ghur Gharbiyah to the east. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Sharqliyya had a population of 1,362 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. Its current inhabitants are predominantly

Alawite 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 Isl ...

s and agriculture is the chief source of income for the village.

History

During the late Ottoman era, in 1829, Sharqliyya was a

Turkmen Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...

village in the Sanjak of Hama, consisting of 12 feddans. In 1838 Sharqliyya's inhabitants were reported to be

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

s by British scholar

Eli Smith Eli Smith (born September 13, 1801, in Northford, Connecticut, to Eli and Polly (Whitney) Smith, and died January 11, 1857, in Beirut, Lebanon) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Andov ...

. Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
179
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* * * Populated places in Homs District Alawite communities in Syria {{HomsSY-geo-stub