Umm Haratayn (other)
Umm Haratayn (also spelled Umm Hartein) could refer to the following villages in Syria: *Umm Haratayn, Hama Umm Haratayn (; also transliterated ''Umm Hartein'' or ''Umm Harteyn'') is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Suran Subdistrict of Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Umm Haratayn had a ..., in the Hama Governorate * Umm Haratayn, al-Suwayda, in the al-Suwayda Governorate {{Geodis ...
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Umm Haratayn, Hama
Umm Haratayn (; also transliterated ''Umm Hartein'' or ''Umm Harteyn'') is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Suran Subdistrict of Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Umm Haratayn had a population of 528 in the 2004 census. The inhabitants of Umm Haratayn are Alawites. History Umm Haratayn is one of several villages on the al-A'la plateau to contain Byzantine-era ruins, namely a rectangular citadel with towers on its corners. In the late 19th century, the village was owned by the Bani Khalid tribe, which sold it to the Kaylani family of Hama in 1890. The inhabitants were Alawite Alawites () are an Arabs, Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, a sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ''ghulat'' branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate A ... tenant farmers who settled in the village in the 1920s or early 1930s at the initiative of ...
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