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Umm Haratayn, al Suwayda

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Country
  
Syria

District
  
Shahba

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Governorate
  
Suwayda

Subdistrict
  
Sura al-Saghira

Local time
  
Friday 7:34 AM

Umm Haratayn, al-Suwayda

Weather
  
8°C, Wind SW at 6 km/h, 75% Humidity

Umm Haratayn (Arabic: أم حارتين‎‎, also spelled Umm Hartein) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the al-Suwayda Governorate, located north of al-Suwayda. Nearby localities include al-Hirak, Khirbet Ghazaleh and Da'el to the west and Umm Walad and Bosra to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Umm Haratayn had a population of 574 in the 2004 census.

Map of Umm Hartein, Syria

Modern-day Umm Haratayn was established by Druze migrants led by the Halabi family between 1867 and 1883. The village is the birthplace of Arab singer Samira Tewfik.

References

Umm Haratayn, al-Suwayda Wikipedia