Al-Dirbasiyah

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Town
Al-Dirbasiyah Location in Syria
Coordinates: 37°4′22″N 40°39′7″E / 37.07278°N 40.65194°E / 37.07278; 40.65194
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	Ras al-Ayn
Subdistrict	al-Darbasiyah
Control	Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Elevation	300 m (1,000 ft)
Population  (2004 census)[1]
• Total	8,551
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3
Area code	52

Al-Dirbasiyah (Arabic: ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة, romanized: ad-Dirbāsīyah, Kurdish: دربێسی, romanized: Dirbêsiyê) is a Syrian town on the Syria–Turkey border opposite the Turkish town of Şenyurt. Administratively it is part of the Al-Hasakah Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Dirbasiyah had a population of 8,551 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 113 localities with a combined population of 55,614 in 2004.^[1] The majority of the inhabitants of the town are Kurds and Arabs and a smaller Assyrian minority.^{[2][better source needed]}

It is connected by road to Tell Beydar in the south.