Hish, Syria

Hish

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Town
	Hish Location in Syria
	Coordinates: 35°32′47″N 36°38′35″E / 35.54639°N 36.64306°E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Idlib
District	Maarrat al-Nu'man
Subdistrict	Hish
Population (2004)
? Total	8,817
Time zone	UTC+2 ( EET )
? Summer ( DST )	UTC+3 ( EEST )

Hish ( Arabic : ???? , romanized : ??? , also spelled Heish or Heesh ) is a town in northwestern Syria , administratively part of the Ma'arrat al-Numan District of the Idlib Governorate . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics , Hish had a population of 8,817 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Hish Subdistrict, which contained 18 localities with a combined population of 41,231 in 2004. ^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims . ^[2]

Nearby localities include Kafr Nabl , Hass , Kafr Ruma and Maarrat al-Numan to the north, Babulin and al-Tah to the east, Kafr Sajnah to the west and Khan Shaykhun to the south. Hish was a small hamlet in the 1960s. ^[2]

References [ edit ]

^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-02-06 at the Wayback Machine . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Idlib Governorate. (in Arabic)
^ ^a ^b Boulanger, 1966, p. 377.

Bibliography [ edit ]

Boulanger, Robert (1966). The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran . Hachette.

[1] General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-02-06 at the Wayback Machine . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Idlib Governorate. (in Arabic)

[Boulanger377-2] Boulanger, 1966, p. 377.

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