Nayarah

Nayarah (Arabic: نيارة‎‎), alternatively spelled Niyarah, is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. It is located at 37.14439 36.43264 on the Queiq Plain, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of Azaz, 40 km (25 mi) north of the city of Aleppo, and 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the border to the Turkish province of Kilis.

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The village administratively belongs to Nahiya Azaz in Azaz District. Nearby localities include al-Salameh 3 km (1.9 mi) to the west and Tatiyah 1.5 km (0.93 mi) to the north. In the 2004 census, Nayarah had a population of 1,337.

During the Roman Empire Nayarah/Nijar was a civitas of the Roman Province of Syria, known as Niara.