Umm Haratayn أم حارتين | |
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Village | |
  Umm Haratayn Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:35°23′13″N36°51′40″E / 35.38694°N 36.86111°E /35.38694; 36.86111 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Hama |
| Subdistrict | Suran |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 528 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C3018 |
Umm Haratayn (Arabic:أم حارتين; also transliteratedUmm Hartein orUmm Harteyn) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theSuran Subdistrict ofHama District. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Umm Haratayn had a population of 528 in the 2004 census.[1] The inhabitants of Umm Haratayn areAlawites.
Umm Haratayn is one of several villages on theal-A'la plateau to containByzantine-era ruins, namely a rectangular citadel with towers on its corners.[2]
In the late 19th century, the village was owned by theBani Khalid tribe, which sold it to the Kaylani family ofHama in 1890. The inhabitants wereAlawite tenant farmers who settled in the village in the 1920s or early 1930s at the initiative of its Hama landlords to cultivate its lands.[3]
