Hammam Wasel

{{Short description|Town in northwestern Syria}}

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|native_name = حمام واصل

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|subdivision_name1 = Tartus

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Hammam Wasel ({{langx|ar|حمام واصل}}, also spelled Hamam Wasil) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located northeast of Tartus. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Sharqiyah and al-Baydah to the west, Baniyas to the northwest, Annaza to the north, and al-Qadmus to the northeast, Masyaf to the east, Wadi al-Oyun to the southeast, al-Shaykh Badr to the south and al-Qamsiyah to the southeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Hammam Wasel had a population of 1,801 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Hammam Wasel nahiyah ("sub-district") which contained 12 localities with a collective population of 8,522 in 2004.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200506193849/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB10-12-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. {{in lang|ar}} The inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.[https://books.google.com/books?id=hllaAAAAYAAJ&q=Hammam+Wasel Revue archéologique]. (1897). Ernest Leroux. {{in lang|fr}}Boulanger, 1966, p. 450.