Al-Bahariyah

Al-Bahariyah البحارية
Village
Al-Bahariyah
Coordinates: 33°31′48″N 36°31′33″E / 33.53000°N 36.52583°E / 33.53000; 36.52583
Country	Syria
Governorate	Rif Dimashq
District	Douma
Subdistrict	al-Nashabiyah
Population  (2004)
• Total	2,568
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Al-Bahariyah (Arabic: البحارية) is a village in eastern Ghouta, 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of Damascus city center. The village is administratively a part of the Douma District in the Rif Dimashq Governorate. Damascus International Airport is located 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) south of Al-Bahariyah.^[1] It had a population of 2,568 at the time of the 2004 Census.^[2] The village was largely destroyed in August 2013 and was the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack during the Syrian Civil War.^[3]

References

1. "Al-Bahariyah - Wikimapia". Wikimapia.
2. "syr_pop_2004_sycensus_0.xls". The Humanitarian Data Exchange. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
3. "United Nations Mission on Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic" (PDF). United Nations. 13 December 2013. p. 5. Retrieved 6 February 2014.