Maabatli

Ma'abatli
معبطلي
Mabeta, Mobetan, Mobato
Town
Ma'abatli is located in Syria
Ma'abatli
Ma'abatli
Coordinates: 36°33′45″N 36°44′18″E / 36.56250°N 36.73833°E / 36.56250; 36.73833
Country Syria
GovernorateAleppo
DistrictAfrin
SubdistrictMaabatli
Control Turkey
Syrian opposition Syrian Interim Government
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Maabatli (Arabic: معبطلي, romanizedMaabatli or Mobetan, Kurdish: Mabeta or Mabata), is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo in the center of Afrin District. Nearby localities include Afrin to the southeast, Rajo to the northwest and Jindires to the south. The town is also the administrative center of the Maabatli nahiyah of the Afrin District with a combined population of 11,741.[1] Previously controlled by the YPG since 2012, Syrian National Army forces took control of the city alongside the Afrin city center on March 18, 2018.[2]

Maabatli is the administrative center of Nahiya Maabatli of the Afrin District.
  1. ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-07-30 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ @SonKaleTurkiye2 (18 March 2018). "#Afrin kırsalındaki Mabatlı nahiyesini" (Tweet) – via Twitter.