Oqeirbat
Sign in to saveUqayribat ( ALA-LC: ʿUqayribāt) also spelled Oqeirbat, Uzeiribat, ′Aqayrbat, ′Agareb, Aaqerbate, Occariba or Occaraba is a Syrian town in the Uqayribat Subdistrict of the Salamiyah District in Hama Governorate. It is situated at the western foot of Jabal Bal'as and along the route connecting Palmyra (Tadmur) to the southeast with Salamiyah to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), ′Uqayribat had a population of 2,745 in the 2004 census.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Uqayribat
- Settlement.other_name
- Oqeirbat, Aqayrbat
- Settlement.native_name
- عقيربات
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Syria
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- bottom
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- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Syria
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Syria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hama
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Salamiyah
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- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Uqayribat
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- Early Muslim period
- Modern period
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Uqayribat ( ALA-LC: ʿUqayribāt) also spelled Oqeirbat, Uzeiribat, ′Aqayrbat, ′Agareb, Aaqerbate, Occariba or Occaraba is a Syrian town in the Uqayribat Subdistrict of the Salamiyah District in Hama Governorate. It is situated at the western foot of Jabal Bal'as and along the route connecting Palmyra (Tadmur) to the southeast with Salamiyah to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), ′Uqayribat had a population of 2,745 in the 2004 census.
==History== ===Roman and Byzantine periods=== Uqayribat is identified as the site of the Roman-era town of Occaraba, listed on the Peutinger Table. In the Notitia Dignitatum, a Roman document, Occaraba is mentioned as a garrison of the equites promoti Illyriciani legion. The Czech explorer Alois Musil did not locate any Roman remains in the village during his early 20th-century expedition in the region. In 2018, a large mosaic was discovered in Uqayribat which belongs to an early Byzantine church.
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