Al-Qahtaniyah
ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة
Tirbespî
ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ | |
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  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 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | Qamishli |
| Subdistrict | al-Qahtaniyah |
| Control |  Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Elevation | 405 m (1,329 ft) |
| Population
(2004)[1]
| 16,946 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Geocode | C4751 |
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 centerofal-Qahtaniyah Subdistrict, which consists of 103 localities. Historically an Assyrian city,[2] at the 2004 census, it had a population of 16,946.[1]
Al-Qahtaniyah was officially called Qbor el-Bid until 1962. Its old name was derived from the Arabic words "Qbor" ("graves") and "el-Bid" ("white") – i.e. "white graves."[2]
The majority of the towns inhabitants are Kurds, followed by a large number of Assyrians-Arameans.[2]
In 1927, the Kurdish tribal chief Haco Agha of the influential Haverkan tribe immigrated from Turkey together with more than 600 families and settled in the town.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
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