Tell Hamis ( ar, تَلّ حَمِيس, Tall Ḥamīs) is a town in northeastern
Hasakah Governorate
Al-Hasakah Governorate ( ar, محافظة الحسكة, Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḥasakah, ku, Parêzgeha Hesekê}, syc, ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܚܣܟܗ, Huparkiyo d'Ḥasake, also known as syc, ܓܙܪܬܐ, Gozarto) is one of the fourteen governorates (pro ...
, northeastern
Syria. The
Wadi Jarrah flows through the town. It is the administrative center of the
Tell Hamis Subdistrict, consisting of 129 localities.
At the 2004 census, Tell Hamis had a population of 5,161.
The inhabitants of the town are predominantly
Arabs
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
.
Civil war
After falling to the
Islamic State
An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...
, it was retaken by Kurdish
YPG forces and the Assyrian
MFS on February 27, 2015.
See also
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Syrian civil war
References
Populated places in Qamishli District
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