sentences:  Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi visited al-Haffah in the early 13th-century, during Ayyubid rule, and noted that it was a district to the west of Halab (Aleppo), comprising many villages.The cloths called Haffiyyah come from here ..."
  
  In 1919 al-Haffah was part of the mini-revolt led by Umar al-Bitar in the Sahyun region of which al-Haffah was the center.Around this time, it joined the revolt of Saleh al-Ali which was in alliance with al-Bitar.