{{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions -->| name = Baramkeh | native_name = البرامكة | native_name_lang = ar <!-- ISO 639-2 code e.g. "fr" for French. If more than one, use {{lang}} instead --> | settlement_type = Neighborhood | image_skyline = | image_caption = | image_flag = | image_seal = | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Syria | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Syria | coordinates = {{coord|33|30|22|N|36|17|12|E|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg}} Syria | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Damascus Governorate | subdivision_type2 = Subdistrict | subdivision_name2 = Damascus | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = Qanawat | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | seat_type = | seat = | government_footnotes = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | unit_pref = Metric<!-- or US or UK --> <!-- ALL fields with measurements have automatic unit conversion -->| area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_percent = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 14,969 | population_as_of = 2004 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_note = | population_demonym = | timezone1 = | utc_offset1 = | timezone1_DST = | utc_offset1_DST = | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code_type = | area_code = | iso_code = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''Baramkeh''' ({{langx|ar|البرامكة}}), named after Barmakids, is a neighborhood and district of the Qanawat municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 14,969 in the 2004 census.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120801022816/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB01-1-2004.htm Damascus Governorate Population 2004 Census]</ref> The neighborhood was founded during the late 19th century, during Ottoman rule.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire|editor1-last=Hanssen|editor1-first=Jenns|editor2-last=Philipp|editor2-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Weber|editor3-first=Stefan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFNtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22were+settled+and+whole+quarters%22|date=2002|publisher=Ergon in Kommission|isbn=9783935556897 }}</ref> A military secondary school was established in Baramkeh in 1890s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chalcraft|first1=John|title=Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East|date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=226|isbn=9781107007505 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhW8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226}}</ref> The district contains a campus of the Damascus University.
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{{Municipalities of Damascus|qanawat}}
Category:Neighborhoods of Damascus
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