Tell Salhab

Tell Salhab

تل سلحب

Tal Selhab
Toun
Tell Salhab is located in Syrie
Tell Salhab
Tell Salhab
Location in Sirie
Coordinates: 35°15′39″N 36°22′56″E / 35.26083°N 36.38222°E / 35.26083; 36.38222
Kintra Sirie
GovrenorateHama Govrenorate
DestrictAl-Suqaylabiyah Destrict
NahiyahTell Salhab
Population
 (2004)
 • Total15,454

Tell Salhab (Arabic: تل سلحب‎, spelt Tal Selhab an aw) is a toun in northren Sirie, admeenistratively pairt o the Hama Govrenorate, locatit 48 kilometre (30 mi) northwast o Hama. It is situatit on the soothren edge o the Ghab plain an bi the wastren bank o the Orontes River.[1] Nearbi localities include Nahr al-Bared, Asharnah an al-Suqaylabiyah tae the north, Deir Shamil an Deir Mama tae the sooth, Tremseh, Mhardeh an Halfaya tae the east. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, Tell Salhab haed a population o 15,454 in the 2004 census. It is the centre o a nahiyah ("subdestrict") an aw, pairt o the Al-Suqaylabiyah Destrict, consistin o 18 localities an wi a combined population o 38,783 in 2004.[2] In the early 1960s its population wis aroond 700. Its indwallers are predominantly Alawites.[3]

In 1978 a 5,200 square metre (56,000 sq ft) succar refinery wis biggit in Tell Salhab at a cost o $50 million. The refinery complex boastit a succar beet silo, a washin plant, pulp presses an dryers, an a watter reservoir.[4]

References

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  1. "لمحة موجزة عـن مدينة تــــــل سلحــــــب" (in Arabic). محافظة حماة. 3 Mairch 2011. Archived frae the original on 12 Mey 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  2. General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-13 at Archive.today. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Hama Govrenorate. (in Arabic)
  3. Boulanger, Robert (1966). The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran. Hachette. p. 452.
  4. "Salhab sugar refinery nears completion". Middle East Economic Digest. 22. 1978. p. 43.