{{Infobox settlement <!--See the Table at Infobox Settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info ----------------> |official_name = Al-Khula |other_name = Khala |native_name = الخلا |native_name_lang = ar <!-- for cities whose native name is not in English --> |nickname = |settlement_type = Village |motto = <!-- images and maps -----------> |image_skyline = |imagesize = 250px |image_caption = |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_shield = |shield_size = |image_blank_emblem = |blank_emblem_type = |blank_emblem_size = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |image_dot_map = |dot_mapsize = |dot_map_caption = |dot_x = |dot_y = |pushpin_map = Syria <!-- the name of a location map as per Template:Location map --> |pushpin_label_position = bottom |pushpin_mapsize = 250 |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Syria <!-- Location ------------------> |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg}} Syria |subdivision_type1 = Governorate |subdivision_name1 = Hama |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = Hama |subdivision_type3 = Subdistrict |subdivision_name3 = Hama |subdivision_type4 = |subdivision_name4 = <!-- Population -----------------------> |population_as_of = 2004 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = 457 |population_density_km2 = |population_density_sq_mi = |population_metro = |population_density_metro_km2 = |population_density_metro_sq_mi = |population_urban = |population_density_urban_km2 = |population_density_urban_sq_mi = |population_blank1_title = Ethnicities |population_blank1 = |population_density_blank1_km2 = |population_density_blank1_sq_mi = <!-- General information ---------------> |timezone = AST |utc_offset = +3 |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|35|10|43|N|36|53|47|E|region:SY|display=inline,title}} |blank_name_sec1 = City Qrya Pcode |blank_info_sec1 = C2959 |website = |footnotes = }} '''Al-Khula''' ({{langx|ar|الخلا|al-Khulā}}; also transliterated ''Khala'' or ''al-Khulla'') is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located east of Hama city. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Khula had a population of 457 in the 2004 census.<ref>{{cite web|title=General Census of Population 2004.|url=https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/syr_pop_2004_sycensus_0.xls |access-date= 2014-07-10}}</ref> Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.
==History== Al-Khula was sold by a sheikh of the Bani Khalid, a Bedouin tribe of central Syria, to the Barazi, a prominent landowning family of Hama city, sometime during the first thirty years of the 20th century. Its inhabitants were Alawite tenant farmers who were settled there in the 1920s or early 1930s.{{sfn|Comité de l'Asie française|1933|pp=132–133}}
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==Bibliography== *{{cite journal|title=Notes sur la propriété foncière dans le Syrie centrale (Notes on Landownership in Central Syria) |journal=Bulletin du Comité de l'Asie française |author=Comité de l'Asie française|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4019479m/f1.item.r=Sorane |publisher=Comité de l'Asie française |date=April 1933 |volume=33 |issue=309 |pages=130–136 |language=fr}}
{{Hama Governorate|hama}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Khula}} Category:Populated places in Hama District Category:Alawite communities in Syria