Al-Mubattan
Al-Mubattan (Arabic: المبطن; also transliterated Mbattan) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Mubattan had a population of 400 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.
History
In 1890, al-Mubattan was sold by a sheikh of the Bani Khalid, a Bedouin tribe of central Syria, to the Azm family of Hama. Its inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arab tenant farmers.
References
- ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
- ^ Comité de l'Asie française 1933, pp. 132–133.
Bibliography
- Comité de l'Asie française (April 1933). "Notes sur la propriété foncière dans le Syrie centrale (Notes on Landownership in Central Syria)". Bulletin du Comité de l'Asie française (in French). 33 (309). Comité de l'Asie française: 130–136.
