Tell Nasri
Tell Nasri
تل نصري Walto | |
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Village | |
 Church of St. Mary, August 2024 | |
  Tell Nasri Location of Tell Nasri in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36°38′23″N 40°22′5″E / 36.63972°N 40.36806°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | al-Hasakah |
| Subdistrict | Tell Tamer |
| Population (2004)[1] | 650 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Geocode | C4393 |
Tell Nasri (Arabic: تل نصري), also known as Walto[2][3] ولطو), is a village near Tell Tamer in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer.
The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East.[4] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 650.[1]
In recent years, during the Syrian Civil War, the Assyrian Church of St. Mary had been destroyed by ISIS in April 2015. Before that, on 23rd February 2015, Tell Nasri had been attacked by ISIS and its people fled to both Al-Hasaka and Qamishli seeking refuge.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Tamer" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
- ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42.
- ^ Dodge, Bayard (1 July 1940). "The settlement of the Assyrians on the Khabbur". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 27 (3): 314. doi:10.1080/03068374008730969. ISSN 0035-8789.
- ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 34–47.
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