Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah
Al-Qahtaniyah
ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة Tirbespî ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ | |
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  Al-Qahtaniyah Location of Al-Qahtaniyah in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 37°02′07″N 41°37′26″E / 37.035375°N 41.623917°E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | Qamishli |
| Subdistrict | al-Qahtaniyah |
| Control |  Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Elevation | 405 m (1,329 ft) |
| Population (2004)[1] | 16,946 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Geocode | C4751 |
Al-Qahtaniyah (Arabic: ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة, romanized: al-Qaḥṭānīyah; Kurdish: Tirbespî; Syriac: ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ, romanized: Qabre Ḥewore), formerly Qubur al-Bid, is a town in northeastern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the administrative center of al-Qahtaniyah Subdistrict, which consists of 103 localities. Historically an Assyrian city,[2] at the 2004 census, it had a population of 16,946.[1] The Female Protection Forces of the Land Between Two Rivers trained in this city.
Etymology
[edit]Al-Qahtaniyah was officially called Qbor el-Bid until 1962. Its old name was derived from the Arabic words "Qbor" ("graves") and "el-Bid" ("white") – i.e. "white graves."[2]
Demographics
[edit]The majority of the towns inhabitants are Kurds, followed by a large number of Assyrians.[2]
Churches in the town
[edit]- Syriac Orthodox Church of Our Lady (ܥܕܬܐ ܕܝܠܕܬ ܐܠܗܐ ܡܪܝܡ ܠܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܬܪ̈ܝܨܝ ܫܘܒܚܐ كنيسة السيدة العذراء للسريان الأرثوذكس)
History
[edit]In 1927, the Kurdish tribal chief Haco Agha of the influential Haverkan tribe immigrated from Turkey together with more than 600 families and settled in the town.[3] On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 40 Kurdish civilians were killed, residents of Al-Qahtaniyah who protested the killings were shot at and injured by Syrian forces.[4]
As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate.
In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the town.[5]
Notable people
[edit]- Ciwan Haco (1957*), Kurdish singer
- Muhammad Khayr Ramdan Yusef
- Sleman Henno (1918-2006) Syriac Orthodox priest who wrote and published a book about the massacres of Assyrians in Turabdin
- Tuma Gawriye Nahroyo (1936-2022) The first Assyrian author who wrote and published the first poetry collection in Surayt
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya al-Qahtaniyah" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2015. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ a b c "Four thousand olive trees planted in Tirbespiyê". Firat News Agency. 2020-05-04. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ Fevret, Maurice; Gibert, André (1953). "La Djezireh syrienne et son réveil économique". Revue de géographie de Lyon (in French) (28): 1–15. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Theo van Boven Syrian Arab Republic". Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ "Tyrkisk avis: Kurdistan nr. 2 bliver dannet". Jiyan (in Danish). 22 July 2012. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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