Al-Zaafaraniyah

For the village in Iran, see Zafaraniyeh, Razavi Khorasan. For the neighborhood in Tehran, Iran, see Zafaraniyeh.

Al-Zaafaraniyah (Arabic: الزعفرانية, also spelled al-Za'afaranah) is a village in the northern Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located north of Homs. Nearby localities include Mashrafah to the southeast, Talbiseh to the southwest, Tasnin and Kafr Nan to the west, al-Rastan to the northwest and Deir Ful and Izz al-Din to the northeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Zaafaraniyah had a population of 5,102 in the 2004 census.^[1]

Al-Zaafaraniyah الزعفرانية
Village
Al-Zaafaraniyah Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°53′43″N 36°46′41″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Homs
District	Al-Rastan
Subdistrict	Talbiseh
Control	Syrian Opposition
Population  (2004)
• Total	5,102
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)

In 1838 al-Zaafaraniyah was classified as a seasonal village or khirba by English scholar Eli Smith.^[2]

Syrian Civil War

See also: Syrian civil war and Timeline of the Syrian civil war (2022)

On 8 May 2022, a man associated with the Syrian Army's Intelligence Directorate was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the village.^[3]