Mount Abdulaziz

Mount Abdulaziz
Mount Abdulaziz is located in Syria
Mount Abdulaziz
Mount Abdulaziz
Location of Mount Abdulaziz
Highest point
Elevation932 m (3,058 ft)
Coordinates36°24′29″N 40°18′30″E / 36.40806°N 40.30833°E / 36.40806; 40.30833
Naming
English translationجبل عبد العزيز
Language of namear
Geography
LocationHasakah Governorate, Syria

Mount Abdulaziz or Abd al-Aziz (Arabic: جبل عبدالعزيز, romanizedJabal ʿAbdulʿazīz) is a mountain ridge located in the southwestern part of the Hasakah Governorate, some 35 km west-south-west from the center of the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria. The mountain has taken its name after Abdul Aziz, a descendant of Abdul-Qadir Gilani and military commander in Saladin's army who had once taken the mountain as a fortified place. The former name of the mountain was ʾAl-Ḥiyāl الحيال. The mount is currently under the control of Kurdish YPG forces who captured it in May 2015 from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)[1]

  1. ^ Shekho, Zozan (May 21, 2015). "Kurdish fighters expel ISIS radicals from major stronghold in Syria". Archived from the original on May 23, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)