Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah
Al-Qahtaniyah
ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة Tirbespî ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ | |
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  Al-Qahtaniyah Location of Al-Qahtaniyah in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 37°01′41″N 41°32′41″E / 37.02811°N 41.54469°E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | Qamishli |
| Subdistrict | al-Qahtaniyah |
| Elevation | 405 m (1,329 ft) |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
• Total | 16,946 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
| Geocode | C4751 |
Al-Qahtaniyah (Arabic: ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة, romanized: al-Qaḥṭānīyah; Kurdish: Tirbespî; Syriac: ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ, romanized: Qabre Ḥewore), formerly Qubur al-Bid (Arabic: قبور البيض), is a town in northeastern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the administrative center of al-Qahtaniyah Subdistrict, which consists of 103 localities. The town had a population of 16,946 in 2004, being the sixth largest town in the Al-Hasakah Governorate.[1]
Etymology
The names Tirbespî, Qubur al-Bid, and Qabre Ḥewore all mean "white graves".
History
During French control, before the establishment of the modern town, the site was known as Qubur al-Bid.
The modern town was founded by Hajo Agha of the Kurdish Hevêrkan tribe, which included some Yazidi families, in the early 1920s.[2] By 1927, with 20,000 Christian refugees having immigrated during the past few years to the region from present-day Turkey, the town had a Christian majority (2,000 out of 3,000). Many Kurdish refugees also arrived in the area after the Sheikh Said rebellion.[3] As part of the Arabization policies of the Syrian government, the name of the town was changed to Qubur al-Bid, and in 1969 the town was renamed Al‑Qahtaniyah.[2]
On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 30+ Kurdish civilians were killed in Qamlishli, residents of the town who protested the killings were shot at and injured by the Syrian Army.[4]
In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the town.[5] The Syriac/Assyrian Female Protection Forces of the Land Between Two Rivers also trained in the town.
Demographics
In the present-day, the majority of the town's inhabitants are Kurds and Arabs, followed by a large number of Syriacs/Assyrians.[6]
Churches
The Syriac Orthodox Church of Our Lady (Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܝܠܕܬ ܐܠܗܐ ܡܪܝܡ ܠܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܬܪ̈ܝܨܝ ܫܘܒܚܐ; Arabic: كنيسة السيدة العذراء للسريان الأرثوذكس) is located in the town.
Notable people
- Ciwan Haco (1957*), Kurdish singer
- Muhammad Khayr Ramdan Yusef
- Sleman Henno (1918-2006) Syriac Orthodox priest who wrote and published a book about the massacres of Assyrians in Turabdin
- Tuma Gawriye Nahroyo (1936-2022) The first Assyrian author who wrote and published the first poetry collection in Surayt
See also
References
- 1 2 "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.
- 1 2 Maisel, Sebastian (2016-12-24). Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 978-0-7391-7775-4.
- ↑ Mundy, Martha (2000). The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East. University Of Cambridge Oriental Publications: Harvard. p. 72.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Four thousand olive trees planted in Tirbespiyê". Firat News Agency. 2020-05-04. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
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