Tarin ( ar, تارين) is a village in northern

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 ...

located northwest 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 ...

in the Homs Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Tarin had a population of 1,585 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites. Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
181
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* Populated places in Homs District Alawite communities in Syria {{HomsSY-geo-stub