Al-Hamraa ( ar, الحمراء, also spelled al-Hamra) is a village in northwestern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, administratively part of the

Hama Governorate Hama Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حماة / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥamā'') is one of the 14 Governorates of Syria, governorates of Syria. It is situated in western-central Syria, bordering Idlib Governorate, Idlib and Aleppo Governorates ...

, located northeast of

Hama , timezone = EET , utc_offset = +2 , timezone_DST = EEST , utc_offset_DST = +3 , postal_code_type = , postal_code = , ar ...

. Nearby localities include Jubb al-Othman to the northeast,

Abu al-Thuhur Abu al-Duhur ( ar, أَبُو الظُّهُور; ''ʾAbū aẓ-Ẓuhūr'', also spelled Abu al-Thuhur) is a town in northwestern Syria on the edge of the Syrian Desert, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located about 45 kilometer ...

to the north, Fan al-Shamali to the west, Maar Shahhur to the southwest,

Salamiyah A full view of Shmemis (spring 1995) Salamieh ( ar, سلمية ') is a city and district in western Syria, in the Hama Governorate. It is located southeast of Hama, northeast of Homs. The city is nicknamed the "mother of Cairo" because it was t ...

to the south and

Sabburah Sabburah ( ar, صبورة) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located east of Hama and 25 kilometers northeast of Salamiyah, on the western edge of the Syrian Desert. Nearby localities include Aqarib ...

to the southeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Hamraa had a population of 1,783 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative centre and second-largest locality of the al-Hamraa ''

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

'' ("subdistrict"), which consisted of 44 localities with a collective population of 32,604 in 2004.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Hama Governorate. In 1838 al-Hamraa was classified as a ''khirba'' ("temporal village") in the District of

Smith Smith may refer to: People * Metalsmith, or simply smith, a craftsman fashioning tools or works of art out of various metals * Smith (given name) * Smith (surname), a family name originating in England, Scotland and Ireland ** List of people wi ...

, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
178
/ref> It is situated near the

Qasr ibn Wardan Qasr Ibn Wardan ( ar, قصر ابن وردان) is a hamlet and 6th-century archaeological site located in the Syrian Desert, approximately northeast from Hama and about northeast of al-Hamraa. The hamlet is separated from the Byzantine-era ru ...

palace.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamraa Populated places in Hama District Towns in Hama Governorate