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Tell Hefyan

Coordinates: 36°38′10″N 40°23′12″E / 36.636106°N 40.386600°E / 36.636106; 40.386600
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Tell Hefyan
تل حفيان
Qodchanis
Village
Tell Hefyan is located in Syria
Tell Hefyan
Tell Hefyan
Location of Tell Hefyan in Syria
Coordinates: 36°38′10″N 40°23′12″E / 36.636106°N 40.386600°E / 36.636106; 40.386600
Country Syria
Governorateal-Hasakah
Districtal-Hasakah
SubdistrictTell Tamer
Population
 (2004)[1]
1,132
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
GeocodeC4427

Tell Hefyan (Arabic: تل حفيان), also known as Qodchanis[2][3] (قوجانس), is a village near Tell Tamer in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer.

The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, and Arabs.[4] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 1,132.[1]

Recent History

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Most of the Assyrian inhabitants of the village were displaced when ISIS attacked the area in February 2015.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Tamer" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42.
  3. ^ Dodge, Bayard (1 July 1940). "The settlement of the Assyrians on the Khabbur". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 27 (3): 314. doi:10.1080/03068374008730969. ISSN 0035-8789.
  4. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 34–47.
  5. ^ "Cristianos del Jabur, un dèjá vu del horror" (in Spanish). m'sur. 20 March 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2023.