Tal'ar Gharbi (Arabic: تل عار غربي, romanizedTall‘ār Ghārbī) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. It is located on the Queiq Plain, between Akhtarin and Al-Rai, and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of the city of Aleppo.

Administratively the village belongs to Nahiya Akhtarin in A'zaz District. Nearby localities include Tal'ar Sharqi 1 km (0.62 mi) to the east, and Qantarah 3 km (1.9 mi) to the north.

Demographics

In the 2004 census, Tal'ar Gharbi had a population of 988.[1] In late 19th century, traveler Martin Hartmann noted Tal'ar as a Turkish and Arab (Bedouin) mixed village of 20 houses, then located in the Ottoman nahiyah of Azaz-i Turkman.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Akhtarin" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. ^ Hartmann, Martin (1894). Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket. Berlin: W. Pormetter. p. 95. Retrieved 30 November 2022. tell'ār 20 TB