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Al-Houz
Al-Houz
(, also spelled
al-Huz
) is a village in central
Syria
, administratively part of the
Homs Governorate
, located southwest of
Homs
. Situated at the southern edge of
Lake Qattinah
, nearby localities include
Aqrabiyah
to the southwest,
Arjoun
and
al-Qusayr
to the southeast,
Kafr Mousa
to the east and
al-Ghassaniya
to the northeast. According to the
Central Bureau of Statistics
(CBS), al-Houz had a population of 2,239 in the 2004 census. It is an
Alawite
village.
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