Taladah ( ar, تلعادة also spelled Tell Adah) is a village in
Syria, administratively part of
Idlib Governorate. Nearby localities include
Turmanin to the southeast,
al-Dana to the southwest and
Darat Izza
Darat Izza ( ar, دارة عزة, also spelled Darat Aza or Darit Izza) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo. Nearby localities include Deir Samaan to the north, Anadan to t ...
to the northeast. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Talaadah had a population of 5,599 in 2004.
[General Census of Population and Housing 2004](_blank)
. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Idlib Governorate. Archived a
Taladah contains a large
Byzantine Empire, Byzantine-era
monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone ( hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer whi ...
celebrated until the
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...
. In 400 CE,
St. Simeon Stylites started his ascetic career there. Taladah remained a relatively important Christian site following the
Muslim conquest of Syria
The Muslim conquest of the Levant ( ar, فَتْحُ الشَّام, translit=Feth eş-Şâm), also known as the Rashidun conquest of Syria, occurred in the first half of the 7th century, shortly after the rise of Islam."Syria." Encyclopædia Br ...
in the 630s. A
Syriac Syriac may refer to:
*Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic
*Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
* Syriac alphabet
** Syriac (Unicode block)
** Syriac Supplement
* Neo-Aramaic languages a ...
inscription dating to 941 was discovered among the ruins. Taladah was captured by the
Crusaders
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...
under
Tancred in 1104.
[Boulanger, 1966, p. 405.]
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{{Idlib Governorate, Harem
Archaeological sites in Idlib Governorate
Populated places in Harem District