Nayarah
نيارة Nijar (نيارة) | |
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Village | |
  Nayarah Location of Nayarah in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36°36′26″N 37°06′32″E / 36.6072°N 37.1089°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Aleppo |
| District | Azaz |
| Subdistrict | Azaz |
| Population (2004)[1] | 1,337 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Geocode | C1573 |
Nayarah (Arabic: نيارة), alternatively spelled Niyarah, is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. It is located at 37.14439 36.43264 on the Queiq Plain, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of Azaz, 40 km (25 mi) north of the city of Aleppo, and 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the border with the Turkish province of Kilis.
The village administratively belongs to Nahiya Azaz in Azaz District. Nearby localities include al-Salameh 3 km (1.9 mi) to the west and Tatiyah 1.5 km (0.93 mi) to the north. In the 2004 census, Nayarah had a population of 1,337.[1][2]
During the Roman Empire Nayarah/Nijar was a civitas of the Roman Province of Syria, known as Niara.[3][4]
Demographics
In late 19th century, traveler Martin Hartmann noted Nayarah as a Turkish village of 15 households, then located in the Ottoman nahiyah of Azaz-i Turkman.[5]
References
- 1 2 "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Azaz" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
- ↑ web site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB02-22-2004.htm نتائج تعداد السكان والمساكن لعام 2004 على مستوى المدينة / قرية .
- ↑ Nijara? at Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ↑ Richard J. A. Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton University Press, 2000 ) p1033.
- ↑ Hartmann, Martin (1894). Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket. Berlin: W. Pormetter. p. 95. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
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