Jneineh
Sign in to saveJunaynah (; also transliterated Jneineh) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hamraa Subdistrict of the Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Junaynah had a population of 1,388 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.
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Junaynah (; also transliterated Jneineh) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hamraa Subdistrict of the Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Junaynah had a population of 1,388 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.
==History== In 1890, Junaynah was sold by the partly Bedouin Ma'adid tribe to the Kaylani family, Hama-based notables. By the 1920s or early 1930s, the Hama landowners settled the village with Alawite tenant farmers to cultivate its lands.
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