Tell_Hamis

Tell Hamis

Tell Hamis

Town in al-Hasakah, Syria

Tell Hamis (Arabic: تَلّ حَمِيس, romanized: Tall Ḥamīs) is a town in northeastern Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. The Wadi Jarrah flows through the town. It is the administrative center of the Tell Hamis Subdistrict, consisting of 129 localities.

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At the 2004 census, Tell Hamis had a population of 5,161.[1] The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Arabs.[2]

Civil war

After falling to the Islamic State, it was retaken by Kurdish YPG forces and the Assyrian MFS on February 27, 2015.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Hamis" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. [2]
    "Kurdish forces regain new villages near Qamishli after ISIS withdrawal". Aranews. 2015. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Kurdish forces 'capture strategic IS Syria bastion'". AFP. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.


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