Al-Yaarubiyah ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 36°48′42″N42°3′59″E / 36.81167°N 42.06639°E | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | al-Hasakah |
District | al-Malikiyah |
Subdistrict | al-Yaarubiyah |
Control | ![]() |
Population (2004) | |
• Total | 6,066 |
Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
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]
Its population are mostly Sunni Muslim Arabs of the Shammar tribe. During the Syrian civil war, the town came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, but was later captured by the Kurdish YPG, [3] bringing it into the AANES.
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