Turkman Bareh ( ar, تركمان بارح, Turkumān Bāriḩ), alternatively spelled Barih, is a town in northern
Aleppo Governorate, northwestern
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 ...
. About northeast of the city of
Aleppo
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and about south of Syria's border with
Turkey, it is administratively part of
Nahiya Akhtarin of
Azaz District. Nearby localities include
Dabiq to the west and
Akhtarin to the south. In the 2004 census, Turkman Bareh had a population of 1,537.
The town is inhabited by
Turkmen
Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to:
Peoples Historical ethnonym
* Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages
Ethnic groups
* Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...
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The town has been in close proximity to sustained fighting in the
Syrian civil war.
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Villages in Aleppo Governorate
Turkmen settlements in Aleppo Governorate