Mhardeh
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Mhardeh (Arabic: محردة, pronounced Mħardé, official English spelling is Maharda) is a city in the Hama Governorate of Syria. It is about 23 km North West of Hama on the Orontes River, and is the centre of Mantiqat Mħardeh, one of the governorate's 5 districts.
Mhardeh is a predominantly Christian city with about 21,000 inhabitants[1]. The Orontes was recently dammed 3 km north, the dam now generates about 2,500 KW-hours of hydroelectric power. Muħardeh dates back to the same Hellenistic period of Apamea, the most notable archaeological remnant from this period is an old temple with stone doors and columns with Corinthian capitals transformed later into a church.
Ghada Shouaa, the first Syrian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, was born in Mhardeh as well as Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch.
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