Tall ad Dirrah ( ar, تل الدرة, also spelled ''Tell Dirrah'', ''Tall Derah'', ''Talldarra'' or ''Tell ad-Dura'') is a

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n village in the

Salamiyah Subdistrict Salamiyah Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية مركز السلمية) is a Syrian nahiyah (subdistrict) located in Salamiyah District in Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Salamiyah Subdistrict had a population of 115300 ...

Salamiyah District Salamiyah ( ar, سلمية ') is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 Census it had a population of 187,123. Its administrative district is the city of Salamiyah. Sub-districts The district of S ...

, located southeast of

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. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Taldara had a population of 5,986 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly

Ismaili Isma'ilism ( ar, الإسماعيلية, al-ʾIsmāʿīlīyah) is a branch or sub-sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili () get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor (imām) to Ja'far al-Sa ...

History

Tall ad Dirrah was initially founded in 1836 when it was acquired by Muhammad Khurfan Bey, a chief of the

Mawali Mawlā ( ar, مَوْلَى, plural ''mawālī'' ()), is a polysemous Arabic word, whose meaning varied in different periods and contexts.A.J. Wensinck, Encyclopedia of Islam 2nd ed, Brill. "Mawlā", vol. 6, p. 874. Before the Islamic prophet ...

tribe in the Hama region. Prior to that, the village had been vacated. Like other places in the

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area that the Ottoman authorities encouraged to be repopulated, the settlers of Taldara came from the Mawali, Nu'aym and Uqaydat tribes. However, just two years later, Taldara and all of the other villages of Salamiyah were reported to have been deserted. Tall ad Dirrah was re-established in the late 19th century by

migrants from other parts of northern Syria who chose to settle the place because of worsening economic conditions in the interior parts of Syria, the low taxes that living in the

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fringes offered, and the place's proximity to Salamiyah, the center of Ismaili life in Syria.

References

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