Atshan

Atshan عطشان
Village
Atshan Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°24′21″N 36°49′24″E / 35.40583°N 36.82333°E / 35.40583; 36.82333
Country	Syria
Governorate	Hama
District	Hama
Subdistrict	Suran
Population  (2004)
• Total	1,809
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya Pcode	C3021

Atshan (Arabic: عطشان) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Suran Subdistrict of the Hama District, located northeast of Hama city. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Atshan had a population of 1,809 in the 2004 census.^[1] Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.

Atshan was sold by the prominent landowning Barazi family of Hama to a merchant from Hama, Muhammad Katkaz, in 1929. Its inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arabs of Bedouin origin.^[2]

• Comité de l'Asie française (April 1933). "Notes sur la propriété foncière dans le Syrie centrale (Notes on Landownership in Central Syria)". Bulletin du Comité de l'Asie française (in French). 33 (309). Comité de l'Asie française: 130–136.

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