Tell Hermez ( ar, تل هرمز), also known as Tkhuma (), is a village near
Tell Tamer in western
al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. Administratively it belongs to the
Nahiya Tell Tamer
Tell Tamer Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية تل تمر) is an ethnically Assyrians in Syria, Assyrian and Syriac/Assyrian, Syriac nahiyah, subdistrict of al-Hasakah District in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. The administrative c ...
.
The village is inhabited by
Assyrians
Assyrian may refer to:
* Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
* Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
** Early Assyrian Period
** Old Assyrian Period
** Middle Assyrian Empire
** Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Assyrian ...
belonging to the
Ancient Church of the East.
At the 2004 census, it had a population of 575.
See also
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Assyrians in Syria
Assyrians in Syria ( syr, ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܐ, ar, الآشوريون في سوريا) are an ethnic and linguistic minority that are Indigenous peoples, indigenous to Upper Mesopotamia (known in Syriac as ''Gozarto'') which is the name us ...
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List of Assyrian settlements
The following is a list of historical and contemporary Assyrian settlements in the Middle East. This list includes settlements of Assyrians from Southeastern Turkey who left their indigenous tribal districts in Hakkari (or the historical Hakk ...
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Al-Hasakah offensive (February–March 2015)
References
Assyrian communities in Syria
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