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Ma'arrat al-Numan
Ma`arat al-Numan (معرة النعمان in Arabic) is today a small western Syrian market town, located at the highway between Aleppo and Hama and near the Dead Cities of Bara and Serjilla. The town, known as Arra to the Greeks and Marre to the crusaders, has its present-day name combined of the traditional name and of its first Muslim governor Al Numan ibn Bashir, a companion of Mohammed.
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