Bidama
Sign in to savethumb | right | An air strike in Bidama Bidama (; also spelled Bdama and Badama) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located northwest of Idlib along the border with Turkey. Nearby localities include al-Najiyah to the southeast, Jisr al-Shughur to the east, Shughur al-Fuqani and al-Janudiyah to the northeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Bidama had a population of 4,162 in the 2004 census. The town is also the administrative center and the second largest locality of the Bidama nahiyah which consisted of 14 localities with a combi
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- Official name
- بداما
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Bidama Subdistrict
- Population
- 4162
- Elevation
- 508
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- Airstrike in Bidama, west of Idlib.jpg
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- native label
- بداما
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thumb | right | An air strike in Bidama Bidama (; also spelled Bdama and Badama) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located northwest of Idlib along the border with Turkey. Nearby localities include al-Najiyah to the southeast, Jisr al-Shughur to the east, Shughur al-Fuqani and al-Janudiyah to the northeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Bidama had a population of 4,162 in the 2004 census. The town is also the administrative center and the second largest locality of the Bidama nahiyah which consisted of 14 localities with a combined population of 18,501 in 2004. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslim Kurds.
Ancient ruins are situated just to the northeast of the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bidama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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