Al-Yaarubiyah

Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة, romanized: al-Yaʿrubīyah; Kurdish: تلکۆچەر, romanized: Til Koçer)[1] is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[2]

Al-Yaarubiyah
ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة
Town
Al-Yaarubiyah is located in Syria
Al-Yaarubiyah
Al-Yaarubiyah
Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E
Country Syria
Governorateal-Hasakah
Districtal-Malikiyah
Subdistrictal-Yaarubiyah
ControlAutonomous Administration of North and East Syria Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Population
 (2004)
 • Total6,066
Time zoneUTC+3 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (EEST)

Its population are mostly Arabs of the Shammar tribe. In the course of the civil war, the town initially came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, but was later captured by the YPG,[3] bringing it into the AANES.

Border post

The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway. It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.

Germans, Norwegians, French-Syrian colonial officials and others at the train station in Tell Kotchek, 1940.

References
  1. Syrian Kurds ache for a lifeline by Karlos Zurutuza, Middle East Eye, 12 February 2015
  2. General Census of Population and Housing 2004Archived 2014-08-24 at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
  3. "Syrian Kurds capture border post". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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