Place:Al-Ḥasakah, Syria

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NameAl-Ḥasakah
Alt namesAl Hasakahsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 627
Al-Hasakahsource: wikipedia
Al-Ḥasakah governoratesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Muḥafaẓat al Ḥasakahsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeGovernorate
Coordinates36.5°N 41.0°E
Located inSyria
Contained Places
Deserted settlement
Nabada
Tell Brak
Inhabited place
Al Qāmishlī ( 1926 - )
Al-Ḥasakah
Darbāsīyah
Dayrīk
Ra's al ʿAyn
Shaddādī
Tall Kūshik
Tall Tamir
ʿAyn Dīwār
ʿĀmūdā
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Al-Hasakah Governorate (, also known as ) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is located in the far north-east corner of Syria and distinguished by its fertile lands, plentiful water, natural environment, and more than one hundred archaeological sites. It was formerly known as Al-Jazira Province. Prior to the Syrian Civil War nearly half of Syria's oil was extracted from the region. It is the lower part of Upper Mesopotamia. Al-Ḥasakah is a governorate.

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