Tal'ar Gharbi

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Tal'ar Gharbi
تل عار غربي
Village
Tal'ar Gharbi is located in Syria
Tal'ar Gharbi
Tal'ar Gharbi
Location of Tal'ar Gharbi in Syria
Coordinates: 36°34′48″N 37°23′29″E / 36.58°N 37.3914°E / 36.58; 37.3914
Country Syria
GovernorateAleppo
DistrictAzaz
SubdistrictAkhtarin
Elevation
484 m (1,588 ft)
Population
 (2004)[1]
988
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
GeocodeC1595

Tal'ar Gharbi (Arabic: تل عار غربي, romanizedTall‘ār Ghārbī) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. It is located on the Queiq Plain, between Akhtarin and Al-Rai, and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of the city of Aleppo.

Administratively the village belongs to Nahiya Akhtarin in A'zaz District. Nearby localities include Tal'ar Sharqi 1 km (0.62 mi) to the east, and Qantarah 3 km (1.9 mi) to the north.

Demographics[edit]

In the 2004 census, Tal'ar Gharbi had a population of 988.[1] In late 19th century, traveler Martin Hartmann noted Tal'ar as a Turkish and Arab (Bedouin) mixed village of 20 houses, then located in the Ottoman nahiyah of Azaz-i Turkman.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Akhtarin" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. ^ Hartmann, Martin (1894). Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket. Berlin: W. Pormetter. p. 95. Retrieved 30 November 2022. tell'ār 20 TB