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Basufan
Sign in to saveBasufan (; ) (sometimes spelled Bassoûfâne, Bassoufane, Bosoufane, Bāşūfān) is an ancient village located in northwestern Syria. The village is populated by Yazidis and had a population of 901 in the 2004 census according to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), and had a population of 2059 according to the civil registry records at the end of 2005.
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Vinony's link graph records 246 inbound references to Basufan, and connects out to UTC+03:00, Aïn al-Arab and Dead Cities.
The entry is geolocated on the map in SY, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Dead Cities, Kurdish settlements in Aleppo Governorate and Populated places in Afrin District.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Basufan
- Settlement.native_name
- باصوفان
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Syria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Syria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Aleppo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Afrin
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Nahiyah
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Afrin
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2004 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 901
- Settlement.timezone
- AST
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Afrin Subdistrict
- Image
- Church of Saint Phocas, Basufan (باصوفان), Syria - Interior south wall - PHBZ024 2016 1710 - Dumbarton Oaks.jpg
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- Commons category
- Basufan
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Location
- Description
- Church of St. Phocas
- Photographs by Gertrude Bell
- References
Basufan (; ) (sometimes spelled Bassoûfâne, Bassoufane, Bosoufane, Bāşūfān) is an ancient village located in northwestern Syria. The village is populated by Yazidis and had a population of 901 in the 2004 census according to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), and had a population of 2059 according to the civil registry records at the end of 2005.
The village is notable for being the site of a former fifth-century church dedicated to Saint Phocas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Basufan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations