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]
Al-Yaarubiyah
ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة | |
|---|---|
Town | |
  Al-Yaarubiyah | |
| Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E / 36.81167°N 42.06639°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | al-Malikiyah |
| Subdistrict | al-Yaarubiyah |
| Control |  Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 6,066 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
Its population are mostly Sunni Muslim Arabs of the Shammar tribe. During the Syrian civil war, the town 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
editThe 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.
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References
edit- ^ Syrian Kurds ache for a lifeline by Karlos Zurutuza, Middle East Eye, 12 February 2015
- ^ 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)
- ^ "Syrian Kurds capture border post". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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