Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah Governorate
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Al-Qahtaniyah القحطانية Tirbespî • ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ |
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 Al-Qahtaniyah
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| Coordinates: 37°02′07″N 41°37′26″E / 37.035375°N 41.623917°ECoordinates: 37°02′07″N 41°37′26″E / 37.035375°N 41.623917°E | |
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 Syria
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| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | Qamishli |
| Subdistrict | al-Qahtaniyah |
| Elevation | 405 m (1,329 ft) |
| Population (2004) | 16,946 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Geocode | C4751 |
Al-Qahtaniyah (Arabic: القحطانية; Syriac: ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ, translit. Qabre Khworeh; Kurdish: Tirbespî), formerly Qubour al-Bid, is a town in northeastern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the administrative center of Nahiya al-Qahtaniyah, which consists of 103 localities. Historically an Assyrian city, at the 2004 census, it had a population of 16,946. As a preliminary result of the ongoing Syrian Civil War, Al-Qahtaniyah today is situated in Jazira Canton within the autonomous Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava framework.
The former name of the town, "Qubour al-Bid", is derived from the Arabic and Syriac-Aramaic words "Qubour/Qabre", both meaning "graves", and "al-Bid/Khworeh", both meaning "white". The name of the town therefore means "White graves". Al-Qahtaniyah's current name was adopted in 1962 as a more optimistic name than its old name.
On 13 March 2004, during the 2004 Qamishli riots where 40 Kurds were killed, the population of Al-Qahtaniyah protested at the funerals of the killed. Protesters were shot at and injured in the town.
As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate.
In late July 2012, during the Syrian Civil War, the YPG took control over the town.
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