Al-Mushrifah المشرفة Al-Mishirfeh | |
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 1936 aerial view of Al-Mushrifah | |
  Al-Mushrifah Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:34°50′04″N36°51′03″E / 34.834479°N 36.850971°E /34.834479; 36.850971 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Homs |
| District | Homs |
| Subdistrict | Ayn al-Niser |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 14,868 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
Al-Mushrifah (Arabic:المشرفة, also spelledal-Mishirfeh,el-Mishrife orMusharrfeh) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theHoms Governorate, located northeast ofHoms, with a population of 14,868 in 2004. Nearby localities includeAyn al-Niser,Umm al-Amad andal-Mukharram to the east, andTalbiseh,al-Ghantu andTeir Maalah to the west. Outside the modern town is Tell el-Mishrife, the site of the ancient city-state ofQatna. It has a religiously mixed population ofSunni Muslims,Alawites andChristians. The village contains several mosques and two churches.[1]
In the mid-19th century, the village of al-Mushrifah was built within the ancient site ofQatna (Tell al-Mishrifeh).[2] Houses were built on top of the royal palace floors, which caused some damage to them while also providing a protective cover for the underlying ruins.[3] In 1940, its population was 1,500.[4] In the 1950s, under the influence of theSyrian Communist Party, some of the peasants of al-Mushrifah rose against their landlord by seizing his harvest.[5] In 1982, the SyrianDirectorate-General of Antiquities and Museums resettled the inhabitants in a new village next to the ancient tell, making the site available for modern archaeological research.[3]
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