Basimah

Basimah (Arabic: بسيمة‎) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located northwest of Damascus in the Wadi Barada. Nearby localities include Ain al-Fijah, Deir Qanun, al-Dimas, Jdeidat al-Wadi, Deir Muqaran and Kfeir al-Zayt. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Basimah had a population of 2,812 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.[2]

Basimah

بسيمة
Village
Basimah, in the 1880s, from Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, vol 2, p. 199
Basimah
Coordinates: 33°36′17″N 36°11′41″E
Country Syria
GovernorateRif Dimashq Governorate
DistrictQudsaya District
NahiyahQudsaya
Population
 (2004 census)[1]
 • Total2,812
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code(s)11


References
  1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 147

Bibliography
  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.


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