Amuda
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Amuda is a town in Al Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria
Syria
Syria , 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....

. Amuda has a mostly Kurdish population. On November 13, 1960, the village was the site of a tragedy in which 152 children were killed in a fire at a movie theatre.
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