Tell Salhab
| Tell Salhab تل سلحب Tal Selhab |
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| — Toun — | |
  Tell Salhab
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| Coordinates: 35°15′39″N 36°22′56″E / 35.26083°N 36.38222°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Hama Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Al-Suqaylabiyah Destrict |
| Nahiyah | Tell Salhab |
| Indwallers (2004) | |
| - Tot | 15,454 |
Tell Salhab (Arabic: تل سلحب, spelt Tal Selhab an aw) is a toun in northren Sirie, admeenistratively pairt o the Hama Govrenorate, locatit 48 kilometres (30 mi) northwast o Hama. It is situatit on the soothren edge o the Ghab plain an bi the wastren bank o the Orontes River.[1] Nearbi localities include Nahr al-Bared, Asharnah an al-Suqaylabiyah tae the north, Deir Shamil an Deir Mama to the south, Tremseh, Mhardeh an Halfaya tae the east. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, Tell Salhab haed a population o 15,454 in the 2004 census. It is the centre o a nahiyah ("subdestrict") an aw, pairt o the Al-Suqaylabiyah Destrict, consistin o 18 localities an wi a combined population o 38,783 in 2004.[2] In the early 1960s its population wis aroond 700. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.[3]
In 1978 a 5,200 square metres (56,000 sq ft) sugar refinery wis built in Tell Salhab at a cost o $50 million. The refinery complex boastit a sugar beet silo, a washin plant, pulp presses an dryers, an a watter reservoir.[4]
References [edit]
- ↑ لمحة موجزة عـن مدينة تــــــل سلحــــــب (Arabic). محافظة حماة (3 March 2011). Retrieved on 25 Dizember 2012. .
- ↑ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Hama Govrenorate. (Arabic)
- ↑ (1966) The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran. Hachette.
- ↑ "Salhab sugar refinery nears completion", Middle East Economic Digest, 1978, p. 43.
