- Source: Bashraghi
Bashraghi (Arabic: بشراغي) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District of the Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Bashraghi had a population of 657 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Alawites and it is the historic home of the Bashaghira (also Bechargas) tribe, a faction of the Matawira confederation which took a leading part in the Alawite Revolt against French rule in 1920.
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