Kafr Halab

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Kafr Halab
كفر حلب
Village
Kafr Halab is located in Syria
Kafr Halab
Kafr Halab
Location in Syria
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Country  Syria
Governorate Aleppo
District Atarib
Subdistrict Atarib
Population (2004 census)[1]
 • Total 4,136
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Kafr Halab (Arabic: كفر حلب‎‎, also spelled Kafar Halab) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Atarib District of the Aleppo Governorate, located southwest of Aleppo. Nearby localities include Zardana to the west, Kafr Nuran, al-Jinah and Ibbin Samaan to the northwest, Urum al-Sughra to the north, al-Bawabiya to the south and Maarrat al-Ikhwan and Taftanaz to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kafr Halab had a population of 4,136 in the 2004 census.[1]

Kafr Halab was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century during Ayyubid rule. He described it as "a village belonging to Aleppo [Halab]."[2]

During the current Syrian uprising, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed three people in Kafr Halab were killed by unidentified assailants on 9 August 2012.[3]

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