Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة, romanized: al-Yaʿrubīyah; Kurdish: تلکۆچەر, romanized: Til Koçer)[1] is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities[citation needed] with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[2]
Al-Yaarubiyah
ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة | |
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Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E | |
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Governorate | al-Hasakah |
District | al-Malikiyah |
Subdistrict | al-Yaarubiyah |
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• Total | 6,066 |
Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
Its population are mostly Arabs of the Shammar tribe. In the course of the civil war, the town initially came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, but was later captured by the YPG,[3] bringing it into the AANES.
The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway.
It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.
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