Qamishli

Qamishli
ٱلْقَامِشْلِي
Qamişlo
ܒܝܬ ܙܠܝ̈ܢ / ܩܡܫܠܐ
Qamishlo
City
Qamishli is located in Syria
Qamishli
Qamishli
Location of Qamishli in Syria
Coordinates: 37°03′17″N 41°13′41″E / 37.05472°N 41.22806°E / 37.05472; 41.22806
Country Syria
GovernorateAl-Hasakah
DistrictQamishli
SubdistrictQamishli
Established1926 (1926)
ControlAutonomous Administration of North and East Syria Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Elevation
455 m (1,493 ft)
Population
 (2004)[1]
184,231
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code+963 52
GeocodeC4564

Qamishli[nb 1] is a city in northeastern Syria on the Syria–Turkey border, adjoining the city of Nusaybin in Turkey. The Jaghjagh River flows through the city. With a 2004 census population of 184,231,[1] it is the ninth most-populous city in Syria and the second-largest in Al-Hasakah Governorate after Al-Hasakah. Qamishli has traditionally been a Christian Assyrian majority city,[6] but is now predominantly populated by Kurds with large numbers of Arabs and Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians. It is 680 kilometres (420 mi) northeast of Damascus.[7]

The city is the administrative capital of the Qamishli District in Al-Hasakah Governorate, and the administrative center of Qamishli Subdistrict, consisting of 92 localities with a combined population of 232,095 in 2004. Qamishli was the de facto capital of the AANES,[8][9] until it was moved to Ayn Issa.[10]

  1. ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Qamishli" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. ^ Welle, Deutsche. "سوريا: قتلى وجرحى في ثلاثة انفجارات تهز مدينة القامشلي" (in Arabic). Dw.com. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Şaredariya Qamişlo bajar paqij dike" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  4. ^ "بەکاتی قامشلۆ 10/12/2019" (in Kurdish). Rudaw.net. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
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  6. ^ "From Qamishli to Qamishlo: A Trip to Rojava's New Capital".
  7. ^ Zurutuza, Carlos. "Syria's first Kurdish-language newspaper" (Archive). Al Jazeera. 18 October 2013. Retrieved on 22 October 2013.
  8. ^ "A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS' Backyard". The New York Times. 2015-11-29. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
  9. ^ Radpey, Loqman (September 2016). "Kurdish Regional Self-rule Administration in Syria: A new Model of Statehood and its Status in International Law Compared to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq". Japanese Journal of Political Science. 17 (3): 468–488. doi:10.1017/S1468109916000190. ISSN 1468-1099.
  10. ^ "Ain Issa: from an obscure town to SDF headquarters". Enab Baladi. 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2020-12-18.


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