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Al-Dirbasiyah

Al-Dirbasiyah

Al-Dirbasiyah (Arabic: ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة, romanized: ad-Dirbāsīyah, Kurmanji Kurdish: Dirbêsiyê) is a Syriantown on the Syria–Turkey border opposite the Turkish town of Şenyurt. Administratively it is part of the Al-Hasakah Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Dirbasiyah had a population of 8,551 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 113 localities with a combined population of 55,614 in 2004. The majority of the inhabitants of the town are Kurds while Arabs and Assyrian are a minority.

It is connected by road to Tell Beydar in the south.