Al-Yaarubiyah

Al-Yaarubiyah

Al-Yaarubiyah

Town in al-Hasakah, Syria

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]

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Its population are mostly Sunni Muslim Arabs of the Shammar tribe. In the course of the civil war, the town initially came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, but was later captured by the Kurdish YPG,[3] bringing it into the AANES.

Border post

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.

Germans, Norwegians, French-Syrian colonial officials and others at the train station in Tell Kotchek, 1940.

References

  1. [1]
    Syrian Kurds ache for a lifeline by Karlos Zurutuza, Middle East Eye, 12 February 2015
  2. [2]
    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)
  3. [3]
    "Syrian Kurds capture border post". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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