Tell Tamer
Town in al-Hasakah, Syria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tell Tamer (Arabic: تَلّ تَمْر, romanized: Tall Tamr, Kurdish: گرێ خورما, romanized: Girê Xurma[2] or Til Temir,[3] Syriac: ܬܠ ܬܡܪ[4][5]) also known as Tal Tamr or Tal Tamir, is a town in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the administrative center of the Tell Tamer Subdistrict consisting of 13 municipalities.
Tell Tamer
تَلّ تَمْر ܬܠ ܬܡܪ گرێ خورما | |
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Coordinates: 36.6606°N 40.3714°E / 36.6606; 40.3714 | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | al-Hasakah |
District | al-Hasakah |
Subdistrict | Tell Tamer |
Control | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
Population (2004)[1] | 7,285 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Geocode | C4409 |
Originally built and inhabited by Assyrians of the Upper Tyari tribe in the late 1930s,[6][7] the town is now predominantly populated by Kurds or Arabs, with Assyrians remaining a substantial minority of about 20%.[8] At the 2004 census, Tell Tamer had a population of 7,285.[1]
Located on the Khabur River at an intersection between the M4 Highway (Aleppo–Mosul) and the major road between al-Hasakah and Diyarbakır (Turkey), the town is a transport hub of major importance.