Arjoun

Arjoun (Arabic: عرجون‎, romanized: Arjūn, also spelled Arcun or Arjoon), is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Nearby localities include Aqrabiyah to the southwest, al-Qusayr to the southeast, al-Dabaah to the east, Kafr Mousa and al-Ghassaniya to the north and al-Houz to the northwest. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Arjoun had a population of 2,465 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.[2]

Arjoun عرجون
Village
Arjoun Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°33′28″N 36°32′11″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Homs
District	Al-Qusayr
Subdistrict	Al-Qusayr
Population  (2004)
• Total	2,465
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)

19th-century Biblical scholars identified Arjoun as "Argana" where in 854 BCE the Neo-Assyrian king Shalmaneser II fought the army of Hadadezer in the Battle of Qarqar.[3] Other sources insist that Argana was located somewhere north of modern-day Hama.[4] An Ancient Roman milestone was found in the village, suggesting it was situated on a Roman road.[5] In his visit to Syria, James Silk Buckingham described Arjoun in the early 19th century as a small village lying below an artificial mound. At the mound's summit was the tomb of a local sheikh surrounded by a few buildings.[6]

References

1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-12-04 at Archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. (in Arabic)
2. Smith, 1841, p. 176.
3. Conder, 1902, p. 173.
4. Babylonian & oriental record, 1889, p. 42.
5. Conder, 1892, p. 36.
6. Buckingham, 1825, p. 491.

Bibliography

• Buckingham, James Silk (1825). Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine. Longmann.
• Babylonian & oriental record. D. Nutt. 1889.
• Conder, Claude Reignier (1892). Heth and Moab: Explorations in Syria in 1881 and 1882. Macmillan.
• Conder, Claude Reignier (1902). The First Bible. W. Blackwood.
• Smith, Eli; Robinson, Edward (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838. 3. Crocker and Brewster.