Al-Hadher, Syria

"Al-Hader, Syria" redirects here; not to be confused with Hader, Quneitra Governorate.

Al-Hadher (Arabic: الحاضر; transliteration: al-Ḥāḍir) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Mount Simeon District of the Aleppo Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Hadher had a population of 8,550 in the 2004 census.^[2]

Al-Hadher الحاضر
Town
Al-Hadher Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°59′45″N 37°3′27″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
District	Mount Simeon
Subdistrict	al-Hadher
Control	Syrian Salvation Government[1]
Population  (2004)
• Total	8,550
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya Pcode	C1182

It is 4 kilometers east of the ancient town of Qinnasrin (Chalcis ad Belum).^[3] It was founded by the Arab tribe of Tanukh as a ḥāḍir (a settlement of sedentarized Bedouin) in the 4th century under Byzantine rule.^[4] Al-Hadher served as the headquarters of Jund Qinnasrin, (military district of Qinnasrin).^[3]

Syrian Civil War

On 8 August 2012, the Free Syrian Army captured al-Hadher.^[5]