Khasham ( ar, خِشَام, Khišām) is a
Syrian
Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Deir ez-Zor District
Deir ez-Zor District ( ar-at, منطقة دير الزور, mantiqah, manṭiqat Dair az-Zaur) is a Districts of Syria, district of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in northeastern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Deir ez-Zor. At the 2004 ...
,
Deir ez-Zor. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Khasham had a population of 7,021 in the 2004 census.
See also
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Battle of Khasham
On 7 February 2018, the coalition established in 2014 to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) delivered massive air and artillery strikes on the Syrian pro-government forces near the towns of Khasham and Al Tabiyeh in the Dei ...
References
Populated places in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
Populated places on the Euphrates River
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