Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah Governorate

Al-Qahtaniyah (Arabic: القحطانية‎; Kurdish: Tirbespî‎ or Tirbê Spîyê; Syriac: ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ‎, romanized: Qabre Ḥewore), formerly Qubur al-Bid, is a town in northeastern Syria. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 16,946.[1]

This article is about the town in al-Hasakah Governorate in Syria. For other towns with the same name, see Al-Qahtaniyah.
Al-Qahtaniyah

القحطانية

Tirbespî • ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ
Town
Al-Qahtaniyah
Location of Al-Qahtaniyah in Syria
Coordinates: 37.035375°N 41.623917°E / 37.035375; 41.623917
Country Syria
Governorateal-Hasakah
DistrictQamishli
Subdistrictal-Qahtaniyah
Control Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Elevation
405 m (1,329 ft)
Population
 (2004)[1]
16,946
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
GeocodeC4751

History

In 1927, the Kurdish tribal chief Hadjo Agha of the influential Havergan tribe immigrated from Turkey together with more than 600 families and settled in the town.[2] 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 government forces.[3]

As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate.

In late July 2012, during the Syrian Civil War, the People's Protection Units (YPG) took control of the town.[4]

Notable people

References
  1. "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.
  2. 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.
  3. "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.
  4. "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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