Khirbet Tin Nur ( ar, خربة تين نور, also spelled Khirbat at-Teen Nour) is a town in central

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

Homs Governorate Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in central Syria. Its area differs in various sources, from to . It is thus geographical ...

, west of

Homs Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...

. Nearby localities include Homs to the east,

Qattinah Qattinah ( ar, قطينة, Qaṭṭīnah, also spelled Kattineh) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located south of Homs. It is situated at the northeastern end of Lake Homs which is also known as "Lake Q ...

to the southeast, Khirbet al-Sawda to the south,

Khirbet Ghazi Khirbet Ghazi ( ar, خربة غازي) is a village in western Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provi ...

to the southwest,

Khirbet al-Hamam Khirbet al-Hamam ( ar, خربة الحمام) is a village in Syria located in the Homs District, Homs Governorate Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provi ...

to the west,

Umm al-'Adam Umm al-'Adam ( ar, أُمُّ الْعِظَام, also spelled ''Ümmü’l-İzâm'') is a village in northern Syria located northwest of Homs in the Homs Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Umm al-'Adam had a popu ...

to the northwest and

Khirbet Tin Mahmoud Khirbet al-Tin Mahmoud ( ar, خربة تين محمود, also spelled Khirbet at-Teen Mahmud) is a village in western Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, east of Homs. Nearby localities include Khirbet al-Sawda to the northeast ...

to the north. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Khirbet Tin Nur had a population of 2,726 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a ''

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 ...

'' ("sub-district") which consists of 43 localities with a combined population of 52,879 in 2004.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. The town has a total land area of 163 hectares. The town's name, which is translated as the "Ruins of Nur's Figs," has its origins in the old part of town which was known for its abundance of fig orchards. Most of the trees have since been uprooted and today the old town is covered by shrubbery. The modern town was built southwards of the ruins. In the early 1960s Khirbet Tin Nur's houses were built of basaltic lava stone. According to Swiss scholar Max van Berchem, in the early 20th-century ruins from a medieval

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

fortress were located just outside Khirbet Tin Nur.Hunyadi, p. 73. Today the fortress is no longer intact.Yazigi, Zahir
خربة التين نور بلدة التين ومئات السنين
E-Syria. 2011-02-20.

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* * {{Homs Governorate, homs Populated places in Homs District Towns in Syria