Al-Yaarubiyah
Al-Yaarubiyah
ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة | |
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Town | |
| Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E / 36.81167°N 42.06639°E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | al-Malikiyah |
| Subdistrict | al-Yaarubiyah |
| Control | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 6,066 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة, romanized: al-Yaʿrubīyah; Kurdish: تلکۆچەر, romanized: Til Koçer) is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.
Its population are mostly Sunni Muslim Arabs of the Shammar tribe. During the Syrian civil war, the town came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, but was later captured by the Kurdish YPG, bringing it into the AANES.