As-Safirah

As Safīrah (Arabic: السفيرة‎ As Safīra; North Syrian Arabic: Sfīre) is a Syrian city administratively belonging to the Aleppo Governorate. It is the administrative center for the As Safirah District. As Safīrah has an altitude of 348 meters (1,142 ft), and a population of 106,382 as of 2007, making it the 11th largest city per geographical entity in Syria. Medieval geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi spells the name Asfīrah (أسفيرة), not As-Safīrah (السفيرة), which indicates that the definite article in the modern spelling is a result of hypercorrection. As-Safīrah was known in pre-Islamic times as Sipri. Historians have suggested that the name Sipri may have come from the Akkadian word siparru meaning "bronze", which might indicate that copper...