Muzayraa

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title: "Muzayraa" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["towns-in-syria", "populated-places-in-al-haffah-district", "christian-communities-in-syria"] description: "Town in northwestern Syria" topic_path: "society/religion" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzayraa" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in northwestern Syria ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Muzayraa
settlement_type	Town
official_name	Mazirah
other_name	Mzeraa
native_name	مزيرعة
pushpin_map	Syria
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in 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	al-Haffah
subdivision_type3	Subdistrict
subdivision_name3	Muzayraa
leader_title1
established_title
established_title2
established_title3
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2004
population_total	834
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
population_blank2_title	Religions
timezone	EET
utc_offset	+2
timezone_DST	EEST
utc_offset_DST	+3
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
postal_code_type
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|postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = Muzayraa (, Mzera'a or Mazirah) is a town in northwestern Syria administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located east of Latakia. Nearby localities include Difa and Hanadi to the west, al-Jandiriyah to the northwest, al-Haffah and Ayn al-Tineh to the north, Slinfah to the northeast, Shathah to the east and Qardaha to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Muzayraa had a population was 834 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center and the fourth largest locality of the Muzayraa nahiyah ("subdistrict") which contained 27 localities with a collective population of 13,908 in 2004. Its inhabitants are predominantly Christians.

On 14 December 2024, former members of the Syrian Arab Army launched an attack in the settlement on Sham Corps members affiliated with the Syrian transitional government. The incident represents the first clash of its kind since the collapse of the Assad regime.

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2. [https://archive.today/20130112122604/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB06-18-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria). Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS). Latakia Governorate. {{in lang. ar
3. Balanche, 2006, p. 44.
4. (2024-12-14). "في حادثة هي الأولى من نوعها بعد سقوط النظام.. مقـ ـتل وإصابة 15 عنصراً من فصيل "فيلق الشام" بكمين نصبه مسلحون من فلول النظام بريف اللاذقية {{!}} المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان".

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