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'''Qurfays''' ({{langx|ar|قرفيص}}, also spelled '''Qurfeis''' or '''Korfeis''') is a village in northwestern [[Syria]], administratively part of the [[Jableh District]] in the [[Latakia Governorate]], located south of [[Latakia]]. Nearby localities include [[Arab al-Mulk]] to the west, [[Jableh]] to the northwest, [[al-Aqibah]] and [[al-Qutailibiyah]] to the northeast, [[Sarabion]] and  [[Dweir Baabda]] to the southeast. According to the [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)|Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]], Qurfays had a population of 5,566 in the 2004 census.<ref name="CBS">[https://web.archive.org/web/20191215214629/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB06-11-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)|Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS). Latakia Governorate. {{in lang|ar}}</ref> Its inhabitants are predominantly [[Alawite]]s and is one of the centers of the large Douba family. [[Ali Douba]], the former longtime Chief of [[Military Intelligence Directorate (Syria)|Military Intelligence]].<ref>Batatu, 1992, p. 240.</ref>
The municipality of Qurfays was established in 1979 to administer the local affairs of the village as well as nearby al-Barazin, al-Zahra, Bishnana and Mahwarta. There are about 7,000 people living in the municipality whose mayor in 2008 was Abdullah Ehsan.<ref>Khatib, Sharaf.[https://archive.today/20120730145200/http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_archive.asp?FileName=52323510320080914125140 Municipality Qrfais and Wide Range of Services and Suffering from Lack of Central Lines for Sanitation]. Unity Foundation for Press, Printing and Publishing. 2008-09-14.</ref>
==History==
Qurfays served as minor fortress village under the authority of the [[Knights Hospitallers]] fortress of [[Margat]] in the 13th-century and was referred to as ''Corveis''.<ref>Riley-Smith, 2012, p. 91.</ref> In 1271 the Mamluk sultan [[Baibars]] defeated the Crusaders in the coastal mountain range of Syria and forced the Hospitallers to evacuate Qurfays, among other fortresses.<ref name="RS211">Riley-Smith, 2012, p. 211.</ref> However, before they withdrew, they destroyed Qurfays and nearby [[Arab al-Mulk|Balda]].<ref name="RS211"/><ref>Bronstein, 2005, p. 44.</ref> In the 1281 treaty between Mamluk sultan [[Qalawun]] and the Crusader king [[Bohemond IV of Antioch]], Qurfays was among the many fortresses officially handed to the Mamluks.<ref>Holt, 1995, p. 63.</ref>
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==Bibliography==
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*{{cite book|first=Hanna|last=Batatu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mbr-ZfU_uCoC&q=Bayt+Yashut|title=Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1999|isbn=0691002541}}
*{{cite book|first=Judith|last=Bronstein|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVFpbui2E8QC&q=Corveis+Syria|title=The Hospitallers And The Holy Land: Financing The Latin East, 1187-1274|publisher=Boydell Press|year=2005|isbn=1843831317}}
*{{cite book|first=Peter Malcolm|last=Holt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2oeolaGUCEC&q=Qurfays+Syria|title=Early Mamluk Diplomacy, 1260-1290: Treaties of Baybars and Qalāwūn with Christian Rulers |pages=149–150|publisher=BRILL|year=1995|isbn=9004102469}}
*{{cite book|first=Jonathan|last=Riley-Smith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wNY3gLWMqoC&q=Qorfeis|title=The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, C.1070-1309|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2012|isbn=978-0230290839}}
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{{Latakia Governorate|jableh}}
[[Category:Populated places in Jableh District]]
[[Category:Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller]]
[[Category:Alawite communities in Syria]]