Al-Khula الخلا Khala | |
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Village | |
  Al-Khula Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:35°10′43″N36°53′47″E / 35.17861°N 36.89639°E /35.17861; 36.89639 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Hama |
| Subdistrict | Hama |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 457 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C2959 |
Al-Khula (Arabic:الخلا,romanized: al-Khulā; also transliteratedKhala oral-Khulla) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theHama Governorate, located east ofHama city. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Khula had a population of 457 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantlyAlawites.
Al-Khula was sold by asheikh of theBani Khalid, aBedouin tribe of central Syria, to the Barazi, a prominent landowning family ofHama city, sometime during the first thirty years of the 20th century. Its inhabitants wereAlawite tenant farmers who were settled there in the 1920s or early 1930s.[2]
