Bimalkah بملكة Bmalkyeh | |
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Village | |
  Bimalkah | |
| Coordinates:34°56′5″N35°58′22″E / 34.93472°N 35.97278°E /34.93472; 35.97278 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Tartus |
| District | Tartus |
| Subdistrict | Tartus |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
• Total | 817 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Bimalkah (Arabic:بملكة, also spelledBmalkyeh) is a village and suburb in northwesternSyria, administratively part of theTartus Governorate, located 10 kilometers northeast ofTartus. Nearby localities includeDweir al-Shaykh Saad to the west,al-Shaykh Saad andal-Khreibat to the southwest,Tayshur to the southeast,al-Baqaa andHamin to the east,Khawabi andKhirbet al-Faras to the northeast,Awaru andal-Sawda to the north andHusayn al-Baher to the northwest.[2]
According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics, Bimalkah had a population of 817 in the 2004 census.[1] The inhabitants of the village are predominantlyChristians of theGreek Orthodox Church or members of theAlawite community. Many of Tartus's wealthySunni Muslim families build their villas in Bimalkah as well. Together, Bimalkah,al-Khreibat andDweir Taha (part ofal-Sawda municipality) make up the Christian suburbs of Tartus.[2]
During the Ottoman and French Mandate eras, the Christian residents of Bimalkah and al-Khraibet were one of the few peasant peoples of the coastal region to actually own their olive orchards unlike most other peasant communities whose lands were owned by landlords from the major coastal cities.[2]
