Al-Sabinah () is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus in the western Ghouta. Nearby localities include Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, Darayya, Muadamiyat al-Sham, Sayyidah Zaynab, al-Hajar al-Aswad. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Sabinah had a population of 62,509 in the 2004 census.. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate.
History The town's name first appears as Sēbenas (Σηοβενας) in the Diocletianic boundary stones of the Damascus region around 300 CE.
Al-Sabinah camp, a Palestinian refugee camp, was established beside the town in 1948.
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