Tell al-Nabi Mando

Tell al-Nabi Mando (Arabic: تل النبي مندو), known in archaeological literature as Tell Nebi Mend and also known as Qadesh (Arabic: قادش) after the Bronze-Age city which stood at almost the same location, is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. It is situated on the eastern banks of the Orontes River. Nearby localities include al-Houz to the north, Kafr Mousa to the northeast, Arjoun to the east, al-Qusayr to the southeast, Zita al-Gharbiyah to the southwest, al-Aqrabiyah to the southwest and al-Naim to the northwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tell al-Nabi Mando had a population of 1,068 in the 2004 census.[1] The village is adjacent to the ancient site of Qadesh, a name sometimes also used for the village, which abuts it to the north. It is an Alawite village.[2]

Tell al-Nabi Mando

تل النبي مندو
قادش

Qadesh
Village
Tell al-Nabi Mando
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°33′9″N 36°31′6″E
Country Syria
GovernorateHoms
Districtal-Qusayr
Subdistrictal-Qusayr
Population
 (2004)
  Total1,068
Time zoneUTC+3 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (EEST)

References

  1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-12-04 at Archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. Rougier, Bernard (13 October 2015). The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East: Northern Lebanon from al-Qaeda to ISIS. Princeton University Press. p. 214. ISBN 9781400873579.


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