Euphrates Region
|
Euphrates Region Herêma Firatê |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| One of three de facto regions of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria | |||
|
|||
 The three regions of the DFNS: Afrin Region (orange), Euphrates Region (red) and Jazira Region (green). |
|||
| Country |
 Syria
|
||
| Governorate | Aleppo, Raqqa | ||
| De facto Administration | Democratic Federation of Northern Syria | ||
| Autonomy declared | January 27, 2014 | ||
| Administrative center | Kobanî | ||
| Government | |||
| • Prime Minister | Enver Muslim | ||
| Population | |||
| • Estimate (2004) | 322,227 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Area code | +963 21 | ||
.svg)
Euphrates Region, formerly Kobanî Canton, (Kurdish: Herêma Firatê, Arabic: إقليم الفرات, Classical Syriac: ܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܦܪܬ, translit. Ponyotho d'Prat), is the central of three regions of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, factually comprising Ayn al-Arab District of the Aleppo Governorate, Tell Abyad District of the Raqqa Governorate, and the westernmost tip of Nahiya Ras al-Ayn of the Ras al-Ayn District of Al-Hasakah Governorate. Euphrates Region unilaterally declared autonomy in January 2014 and since de facto is under direct democratic government in line with the polyethnic Constitution of Rojava.
The regional capital city is Kobanî, which was under siege between October 2014 and January 2015 by ISIL.
The region has two subordinate cantons, the Kobani canton consisting of the Sarin area (with the al-Jalabiya district subordinate to it) and the Kobani area (with the Şêran and the Qenaya districts subordinate to it), as well as the Tel Abyad canton (with the Ain Issa and Suluk districts subordinate to it).
The region is bordered by Euphrates river to the west, Urfa Province of Turkey to the north, azira Region to the east, al-Thawrah District and Raqqa District of the Raqqa Governorate to the south and south-east respectively. At latitude approximately 36 and a half degrees north, its landscape consists of plains and low hills, rivers being Euphrates and Balikh. Part of the Fertile Crescent, its climate is mostly "warm mediterranean" on the Köppen climate classification, as opposed to the colder, semi-arid regions in its and further to the south and east.
...
Wikipedia