Muhajreen

Al-Muhajreen

المهاجرين
Al-Muhajreen المهاجرين
Municipality
	Al-Muhajreen district in orange
Country	Syria
Governorate	Damascus Governorate
City	Damascus
Population (2004)
• Total	55,510 [1]
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)
Climate	BSk

Muhajreen (Arabic: المهاجرين, romanized: al-Muhajreen) is a municipality and a neighborhood in the central part of Damascus, Syria,[2] on the slopes of Mount Qasioun. The name means 'the immigrants'. It contains Abu Rummaneh, Al-Haboubi, Al-Maliki, Al-Marabit, Al-Mastaba, Al-Rawda and Shura. [2]

History

The village was first settled by Cretan Muslim immigrants in the late 19th century after they fled Crete, and was initially a suburb on the mountain. [3]

References

"Syria General Census 2004". Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
"Damascus Governorate Reference Map" (PDF). OCHA. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
Khoury, Philip S. (1984). "Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 16 (4): 507–540. ISSN 0020-7438. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

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[1] "Syria General Census 2004". Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

[ocha-2] "Damascus Governorate Reference Map" (PDF). OCHA. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

[3] Khoury, Philip S. (1984). "Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 16 (4): 507–540. ISSN 0020-7438. Retrieved 3 August 2021.