Qasr Abu Samrah

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Qasr Abu Samrah ({{langx|ar|قصر أبو سمرة}}) is a village and archaeological site in Syria, administratively a part of the Hama District of the Hama Governorate, located {{convert|31|km|sp=us}} northeast of Hama city. Nearby localities include Zughba to the north, al-Tulaysiyah to northwest, al-Junaynah to the west, Fan al-Shamali and Qasr al-Makhram to the southwest, Duma to the southeast, and al-Hazim to the northeast.{{cite news|title=Qasr Abu Samrah - Wikimapia|url=http://wikimapia.org/13195346/Qasr-Abu-Samrah|publisher=Wikimapia}}

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qasr Abu Samrah had a population of 849 in the 2004 census.[https://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/cod.humanitarianresponse.info/files/syr_pop_2004_sycensus_0.xls General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Hama Governorate. {{in lang|ar}}

Qasr Abu Samrah contains the ruins of a Byzantine-era tower and church, both of them not well-preserved. The church was built completely from basalt. One row of five columns, out of the original two, remains standing, large doorway of the structure.Boulanger, 1966, p. 376.

On 2 December 2024, the opposition forces captured the town after the SAF abandoned their posts in order to retreat into Hama.

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  • {{cite book|first1=Robert|last1=Boulanger|title=The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2a8LAQAAIAAJ&q=Tell+Selhab+Hama|publisher=Hachette|year=1966}}

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{{Hama Governorate|hama}}

Category:Alawite communities in Syria

Category:Populated places in Hama District

Category:Archaeological sites in Hama Governorate

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