Junaynah

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| official_name = Junaynah

| other_name = Jneineh

| native_name = جنينة

| native_name_lang = ar

| settlement_type = Village

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| subdivision_type1 = Governorate

| subdivision_name1 = Hama

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Hama

| subdivision_type3 = Subdistrict

| subdivision_name3 = Hamraa

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| population_total = 1,388

| population_as_of = 2004

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Junaynah ({{langx|ar|جنينة}}; also transliterated Jneineh) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hamraa Subdistrict of the Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Junaynah had a population of 1,388 in the 2004 census.{{cite web|title=General Census of Population 2004.|url=https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/syr_pop_2004_sycensus_0.xls |access-date= 2014-07-10}} Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.

History

In 1890, Junaynah was sold by the partly Bedouin Ma'adid tribe to the Kaylani family, Hama-based notables. By the 1920s or early 1930s, the Hama landowners of Junaynah settled the village with Alawite tenant farmers to cultivate its lands.{{sfn|Comité de l'Asie française|1933|pp=132–133}}

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Bibliography

  • {{cite journal|title=Notes sur la propriété foncière dans le Syrie centrale (Notes on Landownership in Central Syria) |journal=Bulletin du Comité de l'Asie française |author=Comité de l'Asie française|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4019479m/f1.item.r=Sorane |publisher=Comité de l'Asie française |date=April 1933 |volume=33 |issue=309 |pages=130–136 |language=fr}}

{{Hama Governorate|hama}}

Category:Alawite communities in Syria

Category:Populated places in Hama District

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