Qubaybat Abu al-Huda قبيبات أبو الهدى | |
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Village | |
  Qubaybat Abu al-Huda Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:35°22′20″N36°51′23″E / 35.37222°N 36.85639°E /35.37222; 36.85639 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Hama |
| Subdistrict | Suran |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 402 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C3033 |
Qubaybat Abu al-Huda (Arabic:قبيبات أبو الهدى; also spelledQbeibat) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theSuran Subdistrict of theHama District. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qubaybat Abu al-Huda had a population of 402 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants areAlawites.
In the late 19th century or first decade of the 20th century, duringOttoman rule (1517–1918), Qubaybat was sold by the tribe ofBani Khalid, semi-nomadicBedouins of central Syria, to the prominent Shishakli family ofHama. The Shishakli family sold it to another prominent Hama family, the Kaylani, in 1905. The inhabitants wereAlawite tenant farmers who were settled in the village by its urban landlords to cultivate its lands in the 1920s or early 1930s.[2]
