Diban

Diban
ذيبان
Town
Diban
Coordinates: 35°0′9″N 40°30′42″E / 35.00250°N 40.51167°E / 35.00250; 40.51167
Country  Syria
Governorate Deir ez-Zor Governorate
District Mayadin District
Nahiyah Diban
Population (2004 census)[1]
 • Total 9,000
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Diban (Arabic: ذيبان‎, also spelled Thiban or Zeiban) is a town in eastern Syria, administratively part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, located along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, south of Deir ez-Zor, 17 kilometers south of al-Busayrah and 13 kilometers north of Asharah.[2] Nearby localities include Mayadin to the north and east, al-Hawayij to the northeast, Makhan to the south and al-Tayanah to the southeast According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Diban had a population of 9,000 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative seat of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") which consists of ten localities with a total population of 65,079 in 2004.[1]

Diban is the administrative center of Nahiya Diban of the Mayadin District.

Part of Diban is situated on a hill called Tell Diban, which is also an archaeological site. Tell Diban is identified with the ancient Aramean city of Rummunina,[2][3] a probable derivation of the Aramaic word rumman ("pomegranate").[2] The city and its surrounding fields served as a pre-war camp for Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta II's army during his last military campaign in 885 BCE. The king reported that Rummunina was situated along a canal of the Khabur River, a tributary of the Euphrates.[3] According to Belgian orientalist Edward Lipinsky, Tell Diban was "certainly occupied during the Iron Age."[2]

During the Syrian civil war, Diban was occupied by ISIL until the Syrian Democratic Forces captured the town on 18 November 2017[4].

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Bibliography

  • Bryce, Trevor (2009). The Routledge Handbook of The People and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Earky Bronze Age to the fall of the Persians Empire. Routledge. ISBN 1134159080.
  • Lipiński, Edward (2000). The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion. Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908598.
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