Al-Dirbasiyah
ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة دربێسی | |
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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 | |
| 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.
- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ "Jİ SEDÎ 61 NİŞTECİHÊN KANTONA CİZÎRÊ KURDİN | Kürdistan Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi | Lekolin.org". Archived from the original on 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2017-06-10.