Jawbat Burghal
{{Short description|Town in northwestern Syria}}
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Jawbat Burghal ({{langx|ar|جوبة برغال}}) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located east of Latakia in an-Nusayriyah Mountains. Nearby localities include Qardaha, al-Fakhurah, Istamo and Shatha. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Jawbat Burghal had a population of 959 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are all Alawites.[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB06-22-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130113070658/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB06-22-2004.htm |date=2013-01-13|publisher=Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate.}}
Because of its location in the An-Nusayriyah Mountains, the Jawbat Burghal area is home to Syria's cedar, juniper, and pine trees. Around Jawbat Burghal are many hiking trails on the western part of the range where these trees thrive. Roughly 300 hectares of land around Jawat Burghal have C. Libani interspersed with other conifers and oaks. Conservation of these forests is highly threatened due to the massive unrest caused by the Syrian civil war and climate-change-induced forest fires. However, it must noted that cedar saplings from this region are highly resilient and have helped in reforesting many former cedar stands located in Lebanon. The region falls under the natural distribution of cedar forests in that region from southern Anatolia to the Homs gap and beyond into Lebanon and the Palestine frontier. Forest conservation and protection in Syria has severely been affected due to the Syrian civil war and rising climatic incidents like forest fires and drought.{{Cite web |last=Ibrahem |first=Abeer |last2=Koubaily |first2=Emad |last3=Thabeet |first3=Ali |date=June 2020 |title=Assessment of suitable habitat of the natural regeneration C. Libani A. Richard in Slenfeh (Syria) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342286954_Assessment_of_suitable_habitat_of_the_natural_regeneration_C_Libani_A_Richard_in_Slenfeh_Syria}}{{Cite web |title=Unasylva - Vol. 2, No. 2 - Forest conditions in Syria and Lebanon |url=https://www.fao.org/4/x5343e/x5343e06.htm#TopOfPage |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=www.fao.org}}{{Cite web |date=2021-07-29 |title=Wildfire rages for 2nd day in Lebanon, spreads to Syria |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/wildfire-rages-for-2nd-day-in-lebanon-spreads-to-syria |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=PBS News |language=en-us}}{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=Random loggers turn Syria’s oak tree forests to charcoal |url=https://raseef22.net/english/article/1090178-random-loggers-turn-syrias-oak-tree-forests-to-charcoal |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=Raseef22 |language=en}}
The town was the birthplace of Salman al-Murshid. The founder of the (Fada'i), who fought against the feudal lords and their tyranny in various parts of the Syrian coast.