Shin, Syria


Shin is a town in northwestern Syria administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located west of Homs. Nearby localities include Rabah to the north, al-Mahfurah to the northeast, Tarin to the east, Suwayri to the southeast, Hadidah to the south, Mizyeneh and al-Huwash to the southwest and Muqlus to the northwest.
According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Shin had a population of 13,020 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Shin nahiyah which consists of 22 localities with a collective population of 27,951 in 2004. The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Sunnis and Alawites. Although many had converted to the heterodox Alawite sect of Sulayman al-Murshid during the French Mandate period, the population readopted the orthodox Alawite faith since then.

Etymology

The name Shin is possibly coming from 2 sources Syriac language and it means the moon, and Aramaic language and it means peace

History

The town has been built above an Arameans Khirbat, and there are :ar:شين |many other old Aramaians ruins
The majority of population used to work in agriculture, planting Olives, Wheat,Figs and Apples,