Al-Hader,_Syria

Al-Hadher, Syria

Al-Hadher, Syria

Town in Aleppo, Syria

Al-Hadher (Arabic: الحاضر; transliteration: al-Ḥāḍir) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Mount Simeon District of the Aleppo Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Hadher had a population of 8,550 in the 2004 census.[1]

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It is 4 kilometers east of the ancient town of Qinnasrin (Chalcis ad Belum).[2] It was founded by the Arab tribe of Tanukh as a ḥāḍir (a settlement of sedentarized Bedouin) in the 4th century under Byzantine rule.[3] Al-Hadher served as the headquarters of Jund Qinnasrin, (military district of Qinnasrin).[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  2. [2]
    Burns 1992, p. 257.
  3. [3]
    Sauvaget 1971, p. 85.

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