Maar Dis
Sign in to saveMaardis (; also transliterated ''Ma'ardas'') is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Suran Subdistrict of Hama District, located north of Hama. It lies in close proximity to the mountain of Jabal Zayn al-Abidin and the hill and spring of Tell Abbada. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Maardis had a population of 6,750 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.
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Maardis (; also transliterated ''Ma'ardas'') is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Suran Subdistrict of Hama District, located north of Hama. It lies in close proximity to the mountain of Jabal Zayn al-Abidin and the hill and spring of Tell Abbada. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Maardis had a population of 6,750 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.
==History== According to an Ottoman government record from 1818, Maardis consisted of 27 feddans, paid 1,320 qirsh in taxes to the government, as well as 4,720 qirsh in illegal exactions to the mutasallim of Hama, Faraj Agha. Maardis was recorded as a Sunni Muslim village in 1838.