Al-Yaarubiyah
Al-Yaarubiyah
ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة | |
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  Al-Yaarubiyah | |
| Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E / 36.81167°N 42.06639°E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | al-Malikiyah |
| Subdistrict | al-Yaarubiyah |
| Control |  Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 6,066 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة, romanized: al-Yaʿrubīyah; Kurdish: تلکۆچەر, romanized: Til Koçer)[1] is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities[citation needed] with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[2]
Its population are mostly Sunni Muslim Arabs of the Shammar tribe. During the Syrian civil war in March 2013, the town came under the control of Islamist jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham, but was later captured by Kurdish YPG forces in October 2013,[3] bringing it into the administration of Rojava.
Border post
[edit]The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway. It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.
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References
[edit]- ^ Syrian Kurds ache for a lifeline by Karlos Zurutuza, Middle East Eye, 12 February 2015
- ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004Archived 2014-08-24 at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ "Syrian Kurds capture border post". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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