Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah

This article is about the town in al-Hasakah Governorate in Syria. For other towns with the same name, see Al-Qahtaniyah.
Al-Qahtaniyah
ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة
Tirbespî
ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ
Town
Al-Qahtaniyah is located in Syria
Al-Qahtaniyah
Al-Qahtaniyah
Location of Al-Qahtaniyah in Syria
Coordinates: 37°02′07″N 41°37′26″E / 37.035375°N 41.623917°E / 37.035375; 41.623917
CountrySyria
Governorateal-Hasakah
DistrictQamishli
Subdistrictal-Qahtaniyah
ControlDemocratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Elevation
405 m (1,329 ft)
Population
 (2004)[1]
 • Total
16,946
Time zoneUTC+3 (AST)
GeocodeC4751

Al-Qahtaniyah (Arabic: ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة, romanized: al-Qaḥṭānīyah; Kurdish: Tirbespî; Syriac: ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ, romanized: Qabre Ḥewore), formerly Qubur al-Bid, is a town in northeastern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the administrative center of al-Qahtaniyah Subdistrict, which consists of 103 localities. Historically an Assyrian city,[2] at the 2004 census, it had a population of 16,946.[1] The Female Protection Forces of the Land Between Two Rivers trained in this city.

Etymology

The town was originally known as Tirbespî, founded by Hajo Agha of the Hevêrkan tribe in the early 1920s. In 1965, as part of Arabization policies, the name was changed to Qubur al‑Beyd (Arabic for “white graves”; a translation of the Kurdish original), and in 1969 renamed Al‑Qahtaniyah.[3]

Demographics

The majority of the towns inhabitants are Kurds, followed by a large number of Assyrians.[2]

Churches in the town

  • Syriac Orthodox Church of Our Lady (ܥܕܬܐ ܕܝܠܕܬ ܐܠܗܐ ܡܪܝܡ ܠܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܬܪ̈ܝܨܝ ܫܘܒܚܐ كنيسة السيدة العذراء للسريان الأرثوذكس)

History

In 1927, the Kurdish tribal chief Hajo Agha of the influential Hevêrkan tribe immigrated from Turkey with more than 600 families. Upon arriving in the Jazira region, he received land from the Durikan Kurds and, in collaboration with the French authorities, built the town of Tirbespî (present-day Al-Qahtaniyah), for himself[4]. On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 40 Kurdish civilians were killed, residents of Al-Qahtaniyah who protested the killings were shot at and injured by Syrian forces.[5]

As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate.

In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the town.[6]

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "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.
  2. ^ a b "Four thousand olive trees planted in Tirbespiyê". Firat News Agency. 2020-05-04. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  3. ^ Maisel, Sebastian (2016-12-24). Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 978-0-7391-7775-4.
  4. ^ Van Bruinessen, Martin (1992). Sheikh Agha and the State: The Political Role of the Kurdish Sheikh in the Ottoman Empire. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. p. 104. ISBN 900410707X.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "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.
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirbesp%C3%AE