Hama

Hama is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-focal Syria. It is found 213 km 132 mi north of Damascus and 46 kilometers 29 mi north of Homs. It is the common capital of the Hama Governorate. With a populace of 854,000 2009 evaluation, Hama is the fourth-biggest city in Syria after Aleppo, Damascus and Homs. The city is eminent for its seventeen norias utilized for watering the patio nurseries, which are privately professed to go back to 1100 BC. Despite the fact that verifiably utilized for motivation behind water system, the norias exist today as a for the most part tasteful conventional show.

A large portion of the inhabitants are Sunni Muslims counting generally Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmen, albeit a few regions of the city are solely Christian. Hama is presumed to be the most moderate Sunni Muslim city in Syria since French Mandate times. Amid that period there was a familiar adage mirroring this trademark: "In Damascus, it takes just three men to make a political show, while in Hama it takes just three men to get the town to ask". The Christian populace generally holds fast to the Greek Orthodox Church or the Syriac Orthodox Church.