Bashraghi (Arabic: بشراغي) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District of the Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Bashraghi had a population of 657 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are Alawites and it is the historic home of the Bashaghira (also Bechargas) tribe, a faction of the Matawira confederation which took a leading part in the Alawite Revolt against French rule in 1920.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ Bou-Nacklie 1993, p. 657, note 6.
  3. ^ Balanche 2000, p. 497.

Sources

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashraghi
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