Al-Thawrah
Al-Thawrah / Al-Tabqah
ٱلثَّوْرَة / ٱلطَّبْقَة | |
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Al-Thawrah in 1995 | |
| Coordinates: 35°50′12″N 38°32′53″E / 35.83667°N 38.54806°E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | Raqqa |
| District | al-Thawrah |
| Subdistrict | al-Thawrah |
| Control | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Elevation | 328 m (1,076 ft) |
| Population (2004 census) | |
• Total | 69,425 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Al-Thawrah (Arabic: ٱلثَّوْرَة, romanized: ad-Ṭhawrah), also known as Al-Tabqah (Arabic: ٱلطَّبْقَة, romanized: aṭ-Ṭabaqah, Kurdish: Tebqa), is a city in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, approximately 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of Raqqa. Al-Thawrah was the original name the settlement, which up until the 1960s had been relatively small. The city had a population of 69,425 as of the 2004 census. It is part of the Tabqa Region of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.