Tell Sinan تل سنان Nasharzi | |
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Village | |
  Tell Sinan Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:35°7′33″N37°7′20″E / 35.12583°N 37.12222°E /35.12583; 37.12222 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Salamiyah |
| Subdistrict | Salamiyah |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 1,061 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C3216 |
Tell Sinan (Arabic:تل سنان,romanized: Tall Sīnān), also known by its residents asNasharzi, is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theSalamiyah District of theHama Governorate. It is located 52 kilometers (32 mi) east ofHama and 17 kilometers (11 mi) west ofSalamiyah.[1] According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tell Sinan had a population of 1,061 in the 2004 census.[2] Around 40% of the inhabitantsCircassians, descendants of the village's founders, and the remainder are localBedouin.
The modern village of Tell Sinan was founded between 1858 and 1860. Its first settlers wereCircassians from the Bajdugh tribe, followed by a second group from theAbzakh tribe. The Circassians originally fled their homeland due to the Russian invasion and were eventually resettled inSyria by theOttoman government. In 1883 one of the first mosques in the vicinity was built in the village under the orders of SultanAbdul Hamid I. One of the first elementary schools in the Salamiyah area was founded in Tell Sinan in 1910.[1]
In the 20th century, many of the Circassians moved to the major cities of Syria, namely Damascus, Aleppo, Hama and Homs, whileBedouin from the area settled in the village. As of 2010, about 400 of its 1,000 inhabitants were Circassians, who alternatively refer to the village as 'Nasharzi' after their purported village of origin in theCaucasus, and the remainder were of Bedouin descent.[1]
