Qalatiyah

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Qalatiyah ({{langx|ar|قلاطية}}, also spelled Qlltia, Kilitia, or Kulleituliyeh) is a village in western Syria in the Wadi al-Nasara ("Valley of the Christians") and administratively belonging to the governorate of Homs. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qalatiyah had a population of 724 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 Greek Orthodox Christians.{{cite web|last1=Sprague|first1=Sean|title=Syria's Christian Valley|url=http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=3524&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1|publisher=Catholic Near East Welfare Association}}Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/181/mode/1up 181] The village has a Greek Orthodox Church.{{cite web | url=http://95.85.10.16/media_b/kan/country/sy/1/sy04?nav_show= | title=الموسوعة المسيحية العربية الإلكترونية }}

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  • {{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|author-link1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|author-link2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}}

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{{Homs Governorate|talkalakh}}

Category:Populated places in Talkalakh District

Category:Eastern Orthodox Christian communities in Syria

Category:Christian communities in Syria

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