Tell Al-Tut
History
Ottoman period
Modern Tell al-Tut was founded in 1891 by the al-Hajj and Dahhak families, who owned property in the nearby area of Shaykh Ali. Their respective patriarchs, Hassan al-Hajj and Ali al-Dahhak, found their lands in Shaykh Ali to be insufficient for their growing clans and settled in the ruins of Tell al-Tut. The first homes were mud huts with conical-shaped domes. The founders were soon after joined the families of Al Hassan Yousef, Al Sheikh Hassan Awad and al-Dawa, who helped restore the village's irrigation canals.
Modern period
As of 2009, Tell al-Tut was economically dependent on rainfed agriculture, mainly the cultivation of olives and grapevines, especially the latter. It was also a summer resort village for the inhabitants of Salamiyah, attracted to the village's large forest and olive groves.
References
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- ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
- ^ al-Jundy, Shady (21 July 2016). "'As the darkness increased, so did our fear': Residents of regime-held Hama village flee Islamic State attack". Syria Direct. Retrieved 19 December 2024.