Suran
Suran صوران Ṣūrān | |
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City | |
Suran Location in Syria | |
Coordinates: 35°17′34″N 36°44′45″E / 35.29278°N 36.74583°ECoordinates: 35°17′34″N 36°44′45″E / 35.29278°N 36.74583°E | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | Hama |
District | Hama District |
Subdistrict | Suran Nahiyah |
Population (2007) | |
• Total | 32,724 |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Suran (Arabic: صوران, Ṣūrān) is a Syrian city administratively belonging to the Hama Governorate. It has a population of 32,724 as of 2007, which makes Suran the 56th largest area per geographical entity in Syria. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.[1] Suran's inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslim Arabs, although in the early 20th-century they, along with the inhabitants of nearby Kafr Zita, were still proud of their Mawali origins.[2] The Mawali were non-Arab Muslim nomadic tribes who dominated the desert regions of northern Syria for centuries before being forced out to the vicinity of Hama and Aleppo in the 18th-century by the Annizah, a Bedouin tribal confederation from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula.[3]
References
Bibliography
- Nelles Guide (1999). Syria and Lebanon. Hunter Publishing, Inc. ISBN 3886181057.
- 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.