The
Al Hasakah Governorate (
ArabicArabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...
: مُحافظة الحسكة,
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: Gozarto) is a
governorateSyria has fourteen governorates, or muhafazat . The governorates are divided into sixty districts, or manatiq , which are further divided into subdistricts, or nawahi...
in the far north-east corner of
SyriaSyria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest....
that has the
EuphratesThe Euphrates is the longest and historically one of the most important rivers of Southwest Asia. Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia...
river running through it. It is distinguished by its fertile lands, plentiful water, picturesque nature, and more than one hundred archaeological sites.
The inhabitants of Al Hasakah are composed from different ethnic and cultural groups mainly
ArabArab people or Arabs are an ethnic group whose members identify along linguistic, cultural or genealogical grounds...
s,
Assyrians/SyriacsThe Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western...
,
KurdsThe Kurds are an Ethnic-Iranian ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
,
ArmeniansThe Armenians are a nation and ethnic group which originated in the Caucasus and the Armenian Highland. It is estimated that there are 8 million Armenians around the world. There is a large concentration of Armenians in the Caucasus, especially in Armenia, and there is a significant presence in...
, and others.
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The
Al Hasakah Governorate (
ArabicArabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...
: مُحافظة الحسكة,
SyriacSyriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries...
: Gozarto) is a
governorateSyria has fourteen governorates, or muhafazat . The governorates are divided into sixty districts, or manatiq , which are further divided into subdistricts, or nawahi...
in the far north-east corner of
SyriaSyria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest....
that has the
EuphratesThe Euphrates is the longest and historically one of the most important rivers of Southwest Asia. Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia...
river running through it. It is distinguished by its fertile lands, plentiful water, picturesque nature, and more than one hundred archaeological sites.
Districts
Demographics and population
The inhabitants of Al Hasakah are composed from different ethnic and cultural groups mainly
ArabArab people or Arabs are an ethnic group whose members identify along linguistic, cultural or genealogical grounds...
s,
Assyrians/SyriacsThe Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western...
,
KurdsThe Kurds are an Ethnic-Iranian ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
,
ArmeniansThe Armenians are a nation and ethnic group which originated in the Caucasus and the Armenian Highland. It is estimated that there are 8 million Armenians around the world. There is a large concentration of Armenians in the Caucasus, especially in Armenia, and there is a significant presence in...
, and others. The population of the governorate was estimated in 2007 to be 1,377,000.
Notable cities in the governorate and their estimated population as in 2006 are:
- Qamishli
Qamishli is a city in northeastern Syria on the border with Turkey and close to Iraq...
: 82,129
- Al Hasakah
The Al Hasakah Governorate is a governorate in the far north-east corner of Syria that has the Euphrates river running through it...
: 81,809
- Amuda
Amuda is a town in Al Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria. Amuda has a mostly Kurdish population....
: 45,980
- Ra's Al Ein: 23,008
- Ad Darbasiyah: 21,865
- Al-Malikiyah
Al-Malikiyah is a Syrian town and the center of an administrative district belonging to Al-Hasakah Governorate. The district constitutes the northeastern corner of the country. The Tigris river defines the border that separates Syrian from Iraqi and Turkish territories...
: 18,448
Archaeology
The most prominent archaeological sites are:
- Hamoukar
Hamoukar is a large archaeological site located in the Jazira region of northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border and Turkey...
:considered by some archaeologists to be the oldest city in the world
- Tell Halaf
Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border, just opposite Ceylanpınar. It was the first find of a Neolithic culture, subsequently dubbed the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs...
: Excavations have revealed successive civilization levels and beautiful basalt sculptures.
- Tell Brak
Nagar can refer to:* Nagar, Syria, an ancient city* Nagar, Pakistan, a town in Pakistan* Nagar Valley, a valley in Pakistan* Nagar , former state in Pakistan* Nagar, Bangladesh* Nagar is 'town' in Hindi...
: Situated halfway between al-Hasakah city and the frontier town of al-Qamishli. Excavations in the tell have revealed the Uyun Temple and King Naram-SinNaram-Suen , ca. 2190 – 2154 BC short chronology, was the third successor and grandson of Sargon of Akkad; under Naram-Suen the Akkadian Empire reached its zenith....
palace-stronghold.
- Tell el Fakhariya
Tell el Fakhariya, or Tell el Fecheriyeh with variants, is an ancient site in the Khabur River basin in the Al Hasakah Governorate of northern Syria. It is the alleged site of Washukanni, the capital of Mitanni...
- Tell Hittin: 15 layers of occupation have been identified.
- Tell Leilan
Tell Leilan is situated near the Wadi Jarrah in the Khabur river basin in northeast Syria. The site has been occupied since the 5th millennium BC. During the late third millennium, the site was known as Shekhna. Around 1800 BC, the site was renamed Shubat-Enlil by Shamshi-Adad I and it became the...
: Excavations began in 1975 and have revealed many artefacts and buildings dating back to the 6th millennium BCE such as a bazaar, temple, palace, etc.
It is well known that the Khabur River, which flows through al-Hasakah for 440 km, witnessed the birth of the some of the earliest civilizations in the world.
External links
- ehasakeh The First Complete website for Al-Hasakah news and services