Maʿarrat Maṣrīn or Miṣrīn
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, a small town in North Syria (lat. 36° 01′ N., long. 36° 40′ E.). It is 40 km. to the north of Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān [q.v.], 50 km. south-west of Aleppo or Ḥalab [q.v.] and 12 km. north-west of Sarmīn. It owes its importance to its position between the districts of the Rūd̲j̲, the D̲j̲azr and the D̲j̲abal al-Summāḳ and formerly served as the market for this region which the road from Ḥalab to Armanāz traverses, a route used in the Middle Ages by the Turkomans. Its role has devolved today on Idlib. The land, although poorly watered, has never lacked agricultural resources; in the Middle Ages there were already fig, olive and pistachio trees as well as summāḳ , which was exported to the tanneries; lentils were also cultivated there. In former times, the town was protected by a wall which today has disappeared, and there were five mosques.
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Maʿarrat Maṣrīn or Miṣrīn
in Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Online (EI-2 English)Search for other papers by N. Elisséeff in
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(1,683 words)