Tell Sultan
Tell Sultan
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Tell Sultan (
Abu al-Thuhur to the southeast, Tell Mardikh to the southwest, Saraqib to the west and Tell Touqan to the northwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Tell Sultan had a population of 2,389 in the 2004 census.[1]
History
Tell as-Sultan translates as the "Sultan's Hill." It received this name after the
Ghazi II Saif ud-Din in a battle on the site of Tell Sultan in 1176.[2]
The town was visited in the early 13th century by Syrian geographer
Fatima Khatun, the daughter of Ayyubid sultan al-Kamil, and Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad at a ceremony in Tell Sultan.[4]
References
- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-02-06 at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Idlib Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Richards, 2010, p. 241. Translated from Ibn al-Athir's work.
- ^ le Strange, 1890, p. 544.
- ^ Tabbaa, 1997, p. 45.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0-7546-4078-3.
- le Strange, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Tabbaa, Yasser (1997). Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo. Penn State Press. ISBN 0271015624.