Shahba Canton

Shahba Canton
Kantona Şehba, مقاطعة الشهباء‎

One of the 2 Cantons of the Afrin Region of the self-declared Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in Syria

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Shahba Canton is in greenish yellow (Tel Rifaat Area) and bright yellow (Manbij area) is administred by Shahba's government.

Country

Syria

Governorate

Aleppo

Council of Shahba created

March 22, 2016

Administrative center

Manbij (eastern part) and Tel Rifaat (western part)

Government

• Co-president of the Council of Shahba

Ismail Musa

Time zone

EET (UTC+2)

• Summer (DST)

EEST (UTC+3)

Area code

+963 21

The Shahba Canton (Kurdish: Kantona Şehba‎, Arabic: مقاطعة الشهباء‎, Classical Syriac: ܦܠܩܐ ܕܓܙܪܬܐ‎, translit. Pelqo d'Shahba) is a de facto autonomous region in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. The canton was established to administer the areas captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Aleppo Governorate west of the Euphrates, as part of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria's Afrin Region.

The Shahba autonomous region was founded during the first and second conferences of the Shahba region in Afrin on 28 January 2016 and 2–4 February 2016. The conferences set up the Shahba Regional Assembly with its own council and senate and a de facto autonomous administration, created on 22 March 2016. The borders of the canton are subject to change as a result of military developments in the Syrian Civil War.

Shahba is a nickname for the city of Aleppo. The Shahba Canton denotes the parts of Northern Aleppo Governorate of Syria that are under the administrative control of Democratic Federation of Northern Syria as part of Afrin Region and is located in the Aleppo Governorate west of the Euphrates, mostly consisting of parts of Azaz District and Manbij District.

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