Official Name: | Khirbet al-Ma'zah |
Native Name: | Arabic: خربة المعزة |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Syria |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Syria |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Tartus |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Tartus |
Subdivision Type3: | Subdistrict |
Subdivision Name3: | Khirbet al-Ma'zah |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2004 |
Population Total: | 4,798 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 34.7997°N 36.0044°W |
Khirbet al-Ma'zah (Arabic: خربة المعزة) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate. It is located along the road between Safita in the east and Tartus to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Khirbet al-Ma'zah had a population of 4,798 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Khirbet al-Ma'zah Subdistrict (nahiyah) which consisted of 11 localities with a collective population of 22,897.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.[2]