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Qastal Ma'af

Town in northwestern Syria

Summary

Town in northwestern Syria

Field	Value
official_name	Qastal Ma'af
native_name	قسطل معاف
pushpin_map	Syria
pushpin_mapsize	250
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	Latakia
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Latakia
subdivision_type3	Subdistrict
subdivision_name3	Qastal Ma'af
settlement_type	Town
established_title
established_title2
established_title3
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2004 census
population_total	585
population_footnotes
timezone	EET
utc_offset	+2
timezone_DST	EEST
utc_offset_DST	+3
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
postal_code_type

Qastal Ma'af () is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located in the mountains north of Latakia. Nearby localities include Kesab to the north, Mashqita and Ayn al-Bayda to the south and Rabia to the east. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qastal Ma'af had a population of 585 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Qastal Ma'af nahiyah ("subdistrict"), which consisted of 19 localities with a collective population of 16,784 in 2004. The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Turkmen Sunni Muslim, and the inhabitants of the surrounding villages and subdistrict are predominantly Alawites.

References

[https://archive.today/20130112150815/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB06-5-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria). Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS). Latakia Governorate. {{in lang. ar
Balanche, Fabrice. (2006). "La région alaouite et le pouvoir syrien". Karthala Editions.
Smith, 1841, p. 180.

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