Al-Dirbasiyah
ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة
دربێسی
Town
Al-Dirbasiyah is located in Syria
Al-Dirbasiyah
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
Governorateal-Hasakah
DistrictRas al-Ayn
Subdistrictal-Darbasiyah
ControlAutonomous Administration of North and East Syria Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Elevation
300 m (1,000 ft)
Population
 (2004 census)[1]
 • Total8,551
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
Area code52

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.

Civil war

On 22 July 2012, during the Syrian Civil War, Kurdish-led YPG forces took control over the town, after Syrian government forces, following an ultimatum issued by the YPG, withdrew from it. The town was thus brought into the AANES.[3][4] The Syrian Army entered the town in October 2019, as part of the Second Northern Syria Buffer Zone Agreement.[5]

On 16 July 2020, an unknown UAV suspected to be Turkish carried out a strike against a Russian coordination point south of al-Dirbasiyah.[6] Two Russian soldiers, one SAA member and two members of the Asayish were injured in the strike.[7]

Churches in the town

References

  1. ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Kurdish Syria: From cultural to armed revolution". 28 July 2012. Egypt Independent. 28 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Armed Kurds Surround Syrian Security Forces in Qamishli". Rudaw.net. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  5. ^ "Syrian Army enters key border city for first time in 7 years". AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز. 2019-10-27. Archived from the original on 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  6. ^ "Russian forces injured in drone attack in Rojava's Dirbasiyah: Asayesh". www.rudaw.net. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  7. ^ "Russian, Syrian forces injured in drone attack in Rojava's Dirbasiyah: local sources • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights". The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights. 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2020-07-17.


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