Bel () is a village in northern

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, northwestern Syria. Located halfway between Azaz and al-Rai, some north of the city of

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and south of the border to the Turkish province of Kilis, the village administratively belongs to Nahiya Sawran in Azaz District. Nearby localities include Sawran to the southeast and Kafr Ghan to the north.

Demographics

In the 2004 census, Bel had a population of 563. The village is inhabited by Turkmen. In late 19th century, traveler Martin Hartmann noted Bel as a Turkish village of 15 houses, then located in the Ottoman

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, 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 divisi ...

of Azaz-i Turkman.

References

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