Town in northwestern Syria
Town in Tartus, Syria
Sibbeh
(
Arabic
:
???
, also spelled
Sebbeh
) is a small town in northwestern
Syria
, located 17 kilometers (11 mi) northeast of
Safita
in the
Tartus Governorate
. It is situated atop two hills and the valley between them, in the Syrian coastal mountain range. Nearby localities
Mashta al-Helu
and
al-Kafrun
to the south,
Duraykish
to the west,
Wadi al-Oyun
to the northwest and
Ayn al-Shams
to the northeast.
According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics
(CBS), Sibbeh had a population of 3,061 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Sibbeh subdistrict (
nahiyah
) which consisted of six localities with a collective population of 7,614.
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