Soganekê, Afrin

Soganekê
Soganekê
	البصلية
	Interactive map of Soganekê
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
District	Afrin
Nahiyah	Afrin
Time zone	UTC+3

Soganekê or Al-Basliya (Kurdish: Soganekê, Arabic: البصلية) and formerly Soganê is a Kurdish village, part of Afrin Subdistrict, Afrin District, Aleppo Governorate, in northwestern Syria. The village had a population of 311 according to the 2004 census,^[1] and 935 according to civil registry records at the end of 2005. Its inhabitants were Yazidis until the early 20th century.^[2]

Name

The village's name is derived from the Soganê Yazidi Kurdish tribe, which belongs to the Qatani group within the Yazidi hierarchical order, according to Muhammad Abdo Ali and Khalil Jundi.^[2]

References

↑ UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Syrian Population Localities, General Population Census 2004. Accessed 22 September 2013 Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
1 2 Dr. Muhammad Abdo Ali. Mountains of the Kurds: A Comprehensive Geographical Study (1 ed.). Afrin. p. 181.

[1] UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Syrian Population Localities, General Population Census 2004. Accessed 22 September 2013 Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine

[:02-2] 1 2 Dr. Muhammad Abdo Ali. Mountains of the Kurds: A Comprehensive Geographical Study (1 ed.). Afrin. p. 181.

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