Tal'ar Sharqi

Tal'ar Sharqi (Arabic: تلعار شرقي, romanized: Tell‘ār Shārqī) 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 Gharbi1 km (0.62 mi) to the west, and Weqfan2 km (1.2 mi) to the east.

Demographics

In the 2004 census, Tal'ar Sharqi had a population of 525.[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

  1. 12"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