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Maarrat al-Numan

by Bernard Gagnon, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

by Bertramz, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Maarrat al-Numan

Maarat al-Numaan, also known as al-Ma?arra, is a city in northwestern Syria. The city, known as Arra to the Greeks, has its present-day name combined of the Greek name and of its first Muslim governor an-Numan ibn Bashir, a companion of Muhammad. In the Crusaders era it was called Marre.