# Maardis

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Municipality in Hama, Syria

Ma'ardis معردس Municipality Ma'ardis Location in Syria Coordinates: 35°15′16.56″N 36°45′19.44″E / 35.2546000°N 36.7554000°E / 35.2546000; 36.7554000 Country Syria Governorate Hama District Hama Subdistrict Suran Population (2004) • Total 6,750 Time zone UTC+3 (AST) City Qrya Pcode C3031

**Maardis** ([Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): معردس, [romanized](/source/Romanization_of_Arabic): *Maʿardas*; also transliterated *Ma'ardas*) is a village in central [Syria](/source/Syria), administratively part of the [Suran Subdistrict](/source/Suran_Nahiyah) of [Hama District](/source/Hama_District), located 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) north of [Hama](/source/Hama). It lies in close proximity to the mountain of [Jabal Zayn al-Abidin](/source/Jabal_Zayn_al-Abidin) and the hill and spring of [Tell Abbada](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tell_Abbada&action=edit&redlink=1).[1] According to the [Syria Central Bureau of Statistics](/source/Central_Bureau_of_Statistics_(Syria)) (CBS), Maardis had a population of 6,750 in the 2004 census.[2] Its inhabitants are [Sunni Muslims](/source/Sunni_Muslim).

## History

According to an [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) government record from 1818, Maardis consisted of 27 [feddans](/source/Feddan), paid 1,320 [qirsh](/source/Qirsh) in taxes to the government, as well as 4,720 qirsh in illegal exactions to the [mutasallim](/source/Mutasallim) of [Hama](/source/Hama), [Faraj Agha](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faraj_Agha&action=edit&redlink=1).[3] Maardis was recorded as a [Sunni Muslim](/source/Sunni_Muslim) village in 1838.[4]

The inhabitants of Maardis sold or 'ceded' much of their lands to the [urban notables](/source/A'yan) of Hama in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. By the early 1930s, one such family, the Kaylani, owned 32 shares of the village's lands while the remaining 33 shares were split amongst twenty clans (*fakhd*) who were in frequent dispute over ownership rights. The inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arabs.[5]

In 1974, a municipality was established to administer Maardis. As of 2010, its [master plan](/source/Comprehensive_planning) consisted of 340 hectares.[1]

On 30 November 2024 during the [Hama offensive](/source/2024_Hama_offensive), [Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham](/source/Hay'at_Tahrir_al-Sham) (HTS) rebels captured the city from the [Syrian Army](/source/Syrian_Army) but were repulsed not long afterward.[6] On 3 December, HTS regained control over the city.[7]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-HamaGov_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-HamaGov_1-1) ["لمحة عن بلدية كوكب ـ سورية ـ محافظة حماة (Overview of Kawkab Municipality - Syria - Hama Governorate)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20211018140143/http://www.hama.gov.sy/cms/?cat=53) (in Arabic). Hama Governorate - Technology and Information Directorate. 21 December 2010. Archived from [the original](http://www.hama.gov.sy/cms/?cat=53) on 18 October 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["General Census of Population 2004"](https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/syr_pop_2004_sycensus_0.xls). Retrieved 2014-07-10.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDouwes2000224_3-0)** [Douwes 2000](#CITEREFDouwes2000), p. 224.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobinsonSmith1841[httpsarchiveorgstreambiblicalresearch03robiuoftpage178mode1up_178]_4-0)** [Robinson & Smith 1841](#CITEREFRobinsonSmith1841), p. [178](https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/178/mode/1up).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEComité_de_l'Asie_française1933132–134_5-0)** [Comité de l'Asie française 1933](#CITEREFComité_de_l'Asie_française1933), pp. 132–134.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-collapse30_6-0)** [""The Authority" controls Aleppo International Airport and many cities and towns in the northern Hama countryside amid a complete collapse of the regime forces"](https://www.syriahr.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%80-%d9%80%d9%8a%d9%80-%d9%80%d8%a6%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d9%84%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a/738447/) (in Arabic). SOHR. 30 November 2024. Retrieved 30 November 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["قصف صاروخي يستهدف مدينة محردة و10 ضربات جوية من الطيران الحربي والمروحي تستهدف حلفايا بريف حماة (Rocket shelling targets the city of Mahardah, and 10 airstrikes by warplanes and helicopters target Halfaya in the Hama countryside)"](https://www.syriahr.com/قصف-صاروخي-يستهدف-مدينة-محردة-و10-ضربات/738919/) (in Arabic). SOHR. 3 December 2024.

## Bibliography

- Comité de l'Asie française (April 1933). ["Notes sur la propriété foncière dans le Syrie centrale (Notes on Landownership in Central Syria)"](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4019479m/f1.item.r=Sorane). *Bulletin du Comité de l'Asie française* (in French). **33** (309). Comité de l'Asie française: 130–136.

- Douwes, Dick (2000). [*The Ottomans in Syria: a history of justice and oppression*](https://books.google.com/books?id=zYptAAAAMAAJ&q=Hasya). I.B. Tauris. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1860640311](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1860640311).

- [Robinson, E.](/source/Edward_Robinson_(scholar)); [Smith, E.](/source/Eli_Smith) (1841). [*Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838*](https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft). Vol. 3. Boston: [Crocker & Brewster](/source/Crocker_%26_Brewster).

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