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Beit Jinn Beit Jinn ((アラビア語:بيت جن)) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus on the foothills of Mount Hermon. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Jinn had a population of 2,846 in the 2004 census.〔(General Census of Population and Housing 2004 ). Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. 〕 Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims. The town is also the administrative center of the Beit Jinn Subdistrict which consists of nine towns with a combined population of 15,668.〔 The subdistrict has a mixed Sunni and Druze population and Beit Jinn contains a Druze religious shrine. Nearby localities include Kafr Hawr, Qalaat al-Jandal and Qatana to the northeast and Sa'sa', Kanaker and Deir Maker to the southeast. The Nahr al-Awaj river (ancient Pharpar) passes near the town. ==History== Beit Jinn was visited by Andalusian geographer Ibn Jubayr in the late 12th-century, during Ayyubid rule. He noted that it was "a village between Darayyah and Baniyas lying among the hills."〔le Strange, 1890, p. 412.〕
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