11 Facts About Ma'arrat Misrin

Ma'arrat Misrin is a small city in northwestern Syria, administratively part of Idlib Governorate.

Ma'arat Ma'arrat Misrin was captured by the Muslim army of Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah in 637 CE after defeating a Byzantine force in the Battle of Hazir between the town and Aleppo.

Ma'arat Ma'arrat Misrin is referred to as "Ma'arat Mesren" in 8th-century Syriac manuscripts.

Atiyya and the Byzantine army of Antioch subsequently raided Ma'arrat Misrin, burned its outskirts and killed several of its inhabitants.

In 1099, Ma'arat Ma'arrat Misrin was conquered by the Crusaders who killed the town's defenders and destroyed the minbar of its mosque.

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Ma'arat Ma'arrat Misrin came under Crusader control after the town capitulated upon the approach of Baldwin II in 1119.

In 1945, Maarrat Ma'arrat Misrin, which was under the jurisdiction of the district of Idlib, had 5,000 inhabitants.

Ma'arrat Misrin serves a large market town for the surrounding rural agricultural villages.

Ma'arrat Misrin Masrin has seen violence during the ongoing Syrian Civil War which began in 2011.

The incident began when soldiers allegedly shot dead two civilians in Ma'arrat Misrin prompting residents to block the main road leading to the villages.

In December 2012, a kidnapped NBC News team was held hostage in a chicken farm near Ma'arrat Misrin controlled by FSA-aligned rebel group North Idlib Falcons Brigade.