Al-Yaarubiyah

Al-Yaarubiyah
اليعربية
Town
Al-Yaarubiyah
Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E / 36.81167°N 42.06639°E / 36.81167; 42.06639
Country  Syria
Governorate Al-Hasakah
District Al-Malikiyah District
Nahiyah Al-Yaarubiyah
Population (2004)
 • Total 6,066
Time zone UTC+3 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (EEST)

Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: اليعربية‎) (Kurdish: Tilkoçer‎) 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 with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[1]

Its population are mostly Arab from the Shammar tribe. In course of the Syrian Civil War, the town initially came under the control of Jihadist rebels including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but was later captured by the YPG.[2]

Border post

The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway.

Germans, Norwegians, French-Syrian colonial officials and others at the train station in Tell Kotchek, 1940.

It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.

References

  1. ↑ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ↑ "Syrian Kurds capture border post". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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