Aramo

Aramo
Aramo; آرامو; Արամօ
	Veelage
	Aramo Location in Sirie
	Coordinates: 35°37′35.5″N 36°07′53.8″E / 35.626528°N 36.131611°E
Kintra	Sirie
Govrenorate	Latakia Govrenorate
Destrict	Al-Haffah Destrict
Nahiyah	Slinfah
Population (2004 census)
• Total	490
Time zone	UTC+2
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3

Aramo (Arabic: آرامو‎, Aramo, Armenie: Արամօ, Aramo) is a Sirie veelage locatit in Latakia Govrenorate north wast o the kintra. Aramo is juist 30 km frae the Mediterranean sea. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, Aramo haed a population o 490 in the 2004 census.^[1]

Etymologie

The name probably comes frae the name o the auncient Arameans who inhabitit the place.

Armenies

The veelage is kent tae be populatit bi Armenies, but in 1947 they left in lairge nummers tae Soviet Armenie. Nou a few faimilies live thare. The toun haes an auld Armenie kirk cried Saunt Stepanos built in 1310. It staunds in the middle o the veelage. Thare are some sma kirks carvit in the rocks such as Surp Asdvadzadzin an Surp Kevork Armenie Apostolic kirks. The Alawite Arabs uise those twa kirks on a regular basis.

Nouadays, thare is a sma nummer o Armenie inhabitants in Aramo, maist o whom speak the Arabic leid.

See an aw

References

↑ ^a ^b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2019-12-12 at the Wayback Machine. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Latakia Govrenorate. (in Arabic)

Aramo Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine in Syria Looks

[CBS-1] General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2019-12-12 at the Wayback Machine. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Latakia Govrenorate. (in Arabic)

[1]