Rabu′ ( ar, ربعو, also spelled Rabho) is a
Syrian village located in the
Masyaf Subdistrict
Masyaf Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية مركز مصياف) is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in Masyaf District in Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Masyaf Subdistrict had a population of 68184 in the 200 ...
in
Masyaf District
Masyaf District ( ar, مصياف ') is a district ( mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 Census it had a population of 169,341. Its administrative centre is the city of Masyaf.
Sub-districts
The district ...
, located west of
Hama
Hama ( ar, حَمَاة ', ; syr, ܚܡܬ, ħ(ə)mɑθ, lit=fortress; Biblical Hebrew: ''Ḥamāṯ'') is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria. It is located north of Damascus and north of Homs. It is the provinci ...
. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Rabu′ had a population of 2,288 in the 2004 census.
Rabu' is the site of the ancient
Assyrian
Assyrian may refer to:
* Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
* Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
** Early Assyrian Period
** Old Assyrian Period
** Middle Assyrian Empire
** Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Assyrian ...
fortress town of Aribna, part of
Lubama. It was where the Assyrian emperor
Ashurnasirpal I Aššur-nāṣir-apli I, inscribed m''aš-šur-''PAB-A, “the god Aššur is the protector of the heir,” was the king of Assyria, 1049–1031 BC, and the 92nd to appear on the ''Assyrian Kinglist''. He was the son and successor of Šamši-Adad I ...
lodged when the
Lukuti area was ravaged.
[Boulanger, 1966, p. 369.]
The tomb of a holy man who was widely venerated in the Masyaf area is located in Rabu'. According to local folklore, "only a man with a clear conscience" could pass through its entrance.
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Populated places in Masyaf District
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