Sadad, Syria
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Sadad صدد |
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| Town | |
 Sadad
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| Coordinates: 34°18′46″N 36°55′33″E / 34.31278°N 36.92583°E | |
| Country |
 Syria
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| Governorate | Homs |
| District | Homs |
| Subdistrict | Sadad |
| Population (2004 census) | |
| • Total | 3,503 |
Sadad (Arabic: صدد / ALA-LC: Ṣadad; Syriac: ܣܕܕ) is a town in Syria, 60 kilometers (37 mi) south of Homs, and 101 kilometers (63 mi) northeast of Damascus. It had over 3,500 inhabitants in the 2004 census, the majority of whom belonged to the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Sadad is an ancient village; it is thought to be the "Zedad" (Hebrew: צְדָד / Tzedad; translated as "Sedada" in the Vulgate) mentioned in the Old Testament (Book of Numbers, 34:8; Book of Ezekiel, 47:15), on the northeastern boundary of the biblical land of Canaan, the land promised to the Israelites.
Isolated on the edge of the desert, the community has remained predominantly Syriac Orthodox, including after the Muslim conquest of Syria in the mid-7th century. Aramaic is still spoken in the village. Sadad had been an important bishopric in the past. There was a close connection between Sadad and the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian; according to Istifan al-Duwayhi, some of the monks of that monastery came from Sadad.
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