Khan Tuman ( ar, خان طومان) is a village in northern
Syria, administratively part of the
Mount Simeon District
Mount Simeon District ( ar-at, منطقة جبل سمعان, manṭiqat Jabal Sem‘ān), also known as ''Jabal Sem`an'', is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Aleppo.
Until December ...
of
Aleppo Governorate
Aleppo Governorate ( ar, محافظة حلب / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥalab'' / ) is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria. It is the most populous governorate in Syria with a population of more than 4,867,000 (2011 Est.), almost 23% of t ...
, located southwest of
Aleppo. Nearby localities include
Urum al-Kubrah,
Urum al-Sughrah,
al-Shaykh Ali and
al-Zurbah. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Khan Tuman had a population of 2,781 in the 2004 census.
[General Census of Population and Housing 2004](_blank)
. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. The village is built on a hill located just east of the
Queiq River
The Queiq (Modern Standard Arabic: , ''Quwayq'', ; northern Syrian Arabic: ''ʾWēʾ'', ), with many variant spellings, known in antiquity as the Belus ( grc-gre, Βήλος, ''Bēlos''), Chalos and also known in English as the Aleppo Rive ...
. It is known for its
historical ''caravanserai'' which dates back to 1189.
[Walpole, 1820, p. 329.][Tuman Khan](_blank)
Archnet Digital Library.
See also
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Khan Tuman (building)
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Khan Tuman (operation)
References
Bibliography
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Populated places in Mount Simeon District
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