Tell al-Tut تل التوت | |
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Village | |
  Tell al-Tut Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:34°59′26″N37°9′50″E / 34.99056°N 37.16389°E /34.99056; 37.16389 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Salamiyah |
| Subdistrict | Barri Sharqi |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 1,923 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C3265 |
Tell al-Tut (Arabic:تل التوت) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theBarri Sharqi Subdistrict of theSalamiyah District of theHama Governorate. It is located 45 kilometers (28 mi) east ofHama and 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) east ofSalamiyah.[1] According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tell al-Tut had a population of 1,923 in the 2004 census.[2] The population is religiously mixed[1] and includes anIsmaili community.[3]
Modern Tell al-Tut was founded in 1891 by the al-Hajj and Dahhak families, who owned property in the nearby area ofShaykh Ali. Their respective patriarchs, Hassan al-Hajj and Ali al-Dahhak, found their lands in Shaykh Ali to be insufficient for their growing clans and settled in the ruins of Tell al-Tut. The first homes were mud huts with conical-shaped domes. The founders were soon after joined the families of Al Hassan Yousef, Al Sheikh Hassan Awad and al-Dawa, who helped restore the village's irrigation canals.[1]However, the Office of Souls, which gives the boxes on the family book based on foot.He says that al Dahhak was the first to arrive, then Abdo and then Sheikh Hassan AwwadThe village received all the displaced people from Homs and Hama The beginning of the Syrian revolution
As of 2009, Tell al-Tut was economically dependent on rainfed agriculture, mainly the cultivation of olives and grapevines, especially the latter. It was also a summer resort village for the inhabitants ofSalamiyah, attracted to the village's large forest and olive groves.[1]
