Tuwaym
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| official_name = Tuwaym
| native_name = التويم
| native_name_lang = ar
| settlement_type = Village
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| coordinates = {{coord|35|9|42|N|36|32|20|E|region:SY|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg}} Syria
| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = Hama
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Hama
| subdivision_type3 = Subdistrict
| subdivision_name3 = Hama
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| population_total = 1,428
| population_as_of = 2004
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| timezone = EET
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Tuwaym ({{langx|ar|التويم|al-Tuwaym}}: also transliterated Tuweim) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tuwaym had a population of 1,428 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 an Ottoman court record from 1818, Tuwaym was listed as a village of the Hama Sanjak, consisting of 8 feddans and paying 660 qirsh in taxes.{{sfn|Douwes|2000|p=225}} In 1838, Tuwaym was recorded as a Sunni Muslim village.{{sfn|Robinson|Smith|1841|p=[https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/180/mode/1up 180]}} In the late 19th or early 20th centuries, the inhabitants sold all or most of their lands to the urban notables of Hama. In the early 1930s, the inhabitants were Alawite tenant farmers and the lands were mostly owned by different notable families of Hama.{{sfn|Comité de l'Asie française|1933|pp=132–134}}
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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}}
- {{cite book |first=Dick |last=Douwes |title=The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYptAAAAMAAJ |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2000 |isbn=1860640311}}
- {{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|author-link1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|author-link2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=http://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}}
{{Hama Governorate|hama}}