Jankil
Jankil
جنكيل Qadisiya | |
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Village | |
  Jankil | |
| Coordinates: 35°37′18″N 36°3′11″E / 35.62167°N 36.05306°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Latakia |
| District | Al-Haffah |
| Subdistrict | Al-Haffah |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 1,229 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Jankil (Arabic: جنكيل, also transliterated Jinkil), officially called Qadisiyya, is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the al-Haffah District, located northeast of Latakia. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Jankil had a population of 1,229 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.[2]
Syrian Civil War
[edit]On 7 September 2012, Jankil and the neighboring village Babna were subjected to tank shelling and machine gun fire by government troops.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ Balanche 2000, pp. 86, 105, 297.
- ↑ "تطورات جمعة حمص المحاصرة". www.shrc.org. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
Bibliography
[edit]- Balanche, Fabrice (2000). "Les Alaouites, l'espace et le pouvoir dans la région côtière syrienne : une intégration nationale ambiguë" (in French). Tours: Université François Rabelais. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
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