Shayrat

Shayrat (Arabic: الشعيرات, romanized: ash-Shuʿayrāt, also spelled Sha'irat) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southeast of Homs on the western fringes of the Syrian Desert.

Nearby localities include Dardaghan to the west, al-Manzul and al-Riqama to the northwest, Sadad to the south and al-Hamrat to the southwest.

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shayrat had a population of 1,443 in the 2004 census.

[1] Shayrat had been classified as an abandoned village or khirba by English scholar Eli Smith in 1838.

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