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Al-Hamidiyah

Field	Value
name	El-Hamidiyeh
native_name	الحميدية
Χαμιδιέ
settlement_type	Town
pushpin_map	Syria
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_mapsize	250
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Syria
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	Tartus
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Tartus
subdivision_type3	Subdistrict
subdivision_name3	El-Hamidiyeh
established_title
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
elevation_footnotes
population_total	7,404
population_as_of	2004
timezone	AST
utc_offset	+03:00
postal_code_type

Χαμιδιέ

El-Hamidiyeh (, ) is a town on the Syrian coast. The town was founded in a very short time on the direct orders of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamit II around 1897, to serve as a refuge for the Greek-speaking Muslim Cretan community, forced to leave Crete during the 1897–98 Greco-Turkish War and resettled by the Sultan in Hamidiyeh and other coastal areas of the Levant and as far as Libya. The majority still speak Cretan Greek in their daily lives. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, el-Hamidiyeh had a population of 7,404 in the 2004 census.

Cretan community

Cretan Muslims constitute 60% of the population, numbering about 3,000. Records suggest that the community left Crete between 1866 and 1897, on the outbreak of the last Cretan uprising against the Ottoman Empire, which ended with the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Sultan Abdul Hamid II provided Cretan Muslim families who fled the island with refuge on the Levantine coast. The new settlement was named Hamidiye after the sultan. The community is very much concerned with maintaining its culture. The knowledge of the spoken Greek language is remarkably good and their contact with their historical homeland has been possible by means of satellite television and relatives.

Today, the Grecophone residents identify themselves as Cretan Muslims, and not as Cretan Turks as is the case with some in Tripoli.

References

[https://archive.today/20130112120459/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB10-3-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria). Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS). Tartus Governorate. {{in lang. ar
[http://webs.uvigo.es/ssl/actas2002/05/08.%20Roula%20Tsokalidou.pdf Greek-Speaking Enclaves of Lebanon and Syria] by Roula Tsokalidou. Proceedings ''II Simposio Internacional Bilingüismo''. Retrieved 4 December 2006
[http://www.orsam.org.tr/en/enUploads/Article/Files/2010110_sayi11_eng_web.pdf The forgotten Turks: Turkmens of Lebanon] {{webarchive. link. (2016-03-03 (report). Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies. February 2010. Retrieved 8-5-2015. p. 14. "The locals of Hamidiye do not describe themselves as Cretan Turks, but as Cretan Muslims or Ottomans (Kiritlar = Cretans in turkish). Some locals in Tripoli define themselves as Cretan Turks.")

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