Tasil
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Tasil تسيل |
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| Town | |
 Tasil
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| Coordinates: 32°50′7″N 35°58′17″E / 32.83528°N 35.97139°ECoordinates: 32°50′7″N 35°58′17″E / 32.83528°N 35.97139°E | |
| Grid position | 241/249 PAL |
| Country |
 Syria
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| Governorate | Daraa Governorate |
| District | Izra District |
| Nahiyah | Tasil |
| Occupation |
 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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| Elevation | 525 m (1,722 ft) |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 15,985 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Tasil (Arabic: تسيل, also spelled Tsil) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izra District of the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include Nawa to the northeast, Adwan and al-Shaykh Saad to the east, Jalin and Tafas to the south, Saham al-Jawlan to the southwest and Saida and the Golan Heights to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Tasil had a population of 15,985 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of three localities with a combined population of 17,778 in 2004.
It is situated on an elevation of 1,722 feet (525 meters) above sea level surrounded by extensive tracts of arable, but stony land.
Ancient remains in Tasil indicate that a temple dedicated to one of the Roman emperors Constantine the Great or Constantius II and dated to the early 4th-century CE was located in the village. Tasil might be the "Tharsila on the Batanea" listed by Eusebius as inhabited by Samaritans, though no other literary or archaeological evidence for a Samaritan past is known. Tasil played a role in a number of engagements between the Byzantine and Muslim Arab armies in the Hauran during the Muslim conquest of Syria in the early-mid 7th-century.
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