Latmin
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| official_name = Latmin
| native_name = لطمين
| native_name_lang = ar
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = Ifpo 21473 Syrie, gouvernorat de Hama, Tell Latmin, vue aérienne oblique.jpg
| imagesize = 250px
| image_caption = 1936 aerial view of Latmin
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| pushpin_map = Syria
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| pushpin_mapsize = 250
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Syria
| coordinates = {{coord|35|21|30|N|36|39|13|E|region:SY_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline,title}}
| | | subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg}} Syria
| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = Hama
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Mahardah
| subdivision_type3 = Subdistrict
| subdivision_name3 = Kafr Zita
|parts_type = Control
|parts_style = para
| p1 = {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Syrian_Salvation_Government.svg}} Syrian Salvation Government{{cite news |title="The Authority" controls Aleppo International Airport and many cities and towns in the northern Hama countryside amid a complete collapse of the regime forces |url=https://www.syriahr.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%80-%d9%80%d9%8a%d9%80-%d9%80%d8%a6%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d9%84%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a/738447/ |access-date=30 November 2024 |publisher=SOHR |date=30 November 2024 |language=Arabic}}
| population_footnotes =
| population_total = 1,113
| population_as_of = 2004
| population_density_km2 = auto
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| timezone = EET
| utc_offset = +2
| timezone_DST = EEST
| utc_offset_DST = +3
| blank_name_sec1 = City Qrya Pcode
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Latmin ({{langx|ar|لطمين}}) is a Syrian village located in the Kafr Zita Subdistrict of the Mahardah District in Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Latmin had a population of 1,113 in the 2004 census.{{cite web|title=General Census of Population 2004.|url=https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/syr_pop_2004_sycensus_0.xls |access-date= 2014-07-10}}
History
The medieval Muslim geographer al-Yaqubi mentions a village named al-Atmim as being part of Jund Hims (military district of Homs) in the 9th-century.le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/404/mode/1up 404]. This village corresponds with the artificial mound of Tell Latmin.Lipinsky, 2006, p. 118. The Crusaders captured it in the early 11th-century. However, following the decisive victory of a Muslim alliance at the Battle of Harran in May 1104, Latmin was restored to Muslim control, falling to the kingdom of Ridwan of Aleppo. The Crusader garrison in the village fled back to the Principality of Antioch,Setton, 2006, p. 390. which experienced a severe territorial loss in the interior region of northwestern Syria in the aftermath of the battle.Asbridge, 2000, pp. 55-56. The Crusader forces of the Principality recaptured the village when Ridwan's forces were defeated in the Battle of Artah in April 1105.Asbridge, 2000, p. 59. In the 1220s, during Ayyubid rule, the Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted that Latmin was "a district with a fortress in it," belonging to Hims Province.le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/493/mode/1up 493]. On 30 November 2024, HTS rebels captured the city from the Syrian Army.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|first=Thomas S.|last=Asbridge|title=The Creation of the Principality of Antioch: 1098-1130|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DvUNedDOoFgC&q=Latmin+Syria|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|year=2000|isbn=0851156614}}
- {{cite book|first=Edward|last=Lipinsky|title=On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age: Historical and Topographical Researches|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=837DDbYsxAoC&q=Latmin+Syria|publisher=Peeters Publishers|year=2006|isbn=9042917989}}
- {{cite book|first=Kenneth Meyer|last=Setton|title=A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfO1J6hjcdgC&q=Latmin+Syria|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|year=2006|isbn=0299048349}}
- {{cite book|title=Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500|url=https://archive.org/details/palestineundermo00lestuoft |first1=Guy|last1=le Strange|year=1890|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}
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