Tayzin (, also spelled Tizin) is a village in northwestern

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, administratively part of the

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, located just west of

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. Nearby localities include

Matnin Matnin (, also spelled Mitneen) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located just west of Hama. Nearby localities include Tayzin to the north, al-Rabiaa to the west, Birin to the south and Kafr Buhum t ...

to the north,

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to the southwest,

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to the west,

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to the north and

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to the northeast. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tayzin had a population of 5,072 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
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History

According to an Ottoman tax record from 1818, Tayzin consisted of 46

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s, paid 4,840 qirsh in taxes to the state and another 4,725 qirsh in exactions to the mutasallim of

, Faraj Agha. In 1838, it was recorded as a

village.

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