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Kafr Halab

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Kafr Halab
كفر حلب
Village
Kafr Halab is located in Syria
Kafr Halab
Kafr Halab
Location of Kafr Halab in Syria
Coordinates: 36°03′52″N 36°52′15″E / 36.0644°N 36.8708°E / 36.0644; 36.8708
Country Syria
GovernorateAleppo
DistrictAtarib
SubdistrictUrum al-Kubrah
Population
 (2004)[1]
4,136
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Kafr Halab (Arabic: كفر حلب, also spelled Kafar Halab) or Kafr Aleppo is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Atarib District of the Aleppo Governorate, located southwest of Aleppo. Nearby localities include Zardana to the west, Kafr Nuran, al-Jinah and Ibbin Samaan to the northwest, Urum al-Sughra to the north, al-Bawabiya to the south and Maarrat al-Ikhwan and Taftanaz to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kafr Halab had a population of 4,136 in the 2004 census.[1]

Kafr Halab was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century during Ayyubid rule. He described it as "a village belonging to Aleppo [Halab]."[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Urum al-Kubrah" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. ^ le Strange, 1890, p. 447.

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