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Qaber Shamiyah

Qaber Shamiyah

Village in al-Hasakah, Syria

Qaber Shamiyah (Arabic: قبر شامية), also known as Dizen[2][3] (ديزن), is a village near Tell Tamer in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer.

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The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, and Arabs.[4] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 734.[1] When the Islamic State group took over, the Mar Chamoun church was burned. By the end of 2021, there were only three Assyrian Christians remaining in the village.[5]

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References

  1. [1]
    "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.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    MacDiarmid, Campbell (5 December 2021). "No Christmas celebrations for last three Christians in Syrian village". The Telegraph.


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