Madbaa المضبعة | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Madbaa Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:35°14′23″N36°52′16″E / 35.23972°N 36.87111°E /35.23972; 36.87111 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Hama |
| Subdistrict | Hama |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 857 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C3014 |
Madbaa (Arabic:المضبعة; also transliteratedMadba'ah) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theHama Governorate. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Madbaa had a population of 857 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants areAlawites.
In the late 19th century or early 20th century, Madbaa was sold by asheikh of theBani Khalid tribe,Bedouins of central Syria, to the prominent Kaylani family ofHama. Later in the eaerly 20th century, the Kaylani family sold the village to Najib Agha Barazi, a member of another major landowning family from Hama, in the early 20th century. The inhabitants of the village wereAlawite tenant farmers who were settled there in the 1920s or early 1930s.[2]
