Al-Hadher ( ar, الحاضر; transliteration: ''al-Ḥāḍir'') is a village in northern
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, administratively part of the
Mount Simeon District of the
Aleppo Governorate. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Hadher had a population of 8,550 in the 2004 census.
It is 4 kilometers east of the ancient town of
Qinnasrin (Chalcis ad Belum).
[Burns 1992, p. 257.] It was founded by the
Arab tribe
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, No ...
of
Tanukh as a ''ḥāḍir'' (a settlement of sedentarized
Bedouin
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (; , singular ) are nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert and A ...
) in the 4th century under
Byzantine rule.
[Sauvaget 1971, p. 85.] Al-Hadher served as the headquarters of
Jund Qinnasrin, (military district of Qinnasrin).
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Populated places in Mount Simeon District
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