Afrin may refer to:
Places
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Afrin Canton
Afrin Canton (; ; ) was one of the cantons of Rojava. Syria's Afrin District fell under the control of the People's Protection Units (YPG) around 2012 and an "Afrin Canton" (now Afrin Region) was declared in 2014. Afrin Canton in its latest form ...
, one of the cantons of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria
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Afrin District
Afrin District (, Kurdish: Herêma Efrînê) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Afrin. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 172,095. Also available in English:
Afrin ...
, a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Afrin
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Afrin Subdistrict, a subdistrict of the Afrin District
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Afrin Region
Afrin Region (; ; ) was the westernmost of the three original regions of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
The region previously had two subordinate cantons, the Afrin Canton, consisting of the Afrin city area (with the ...
, the westernmost of the three regions of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria
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Afrin River
The Afrin River ( ''Nahr ʻIfrīn''; ; northern Syrian vernacular: ''Nahər ʻAfrīn''; ) is a tributary of the Orontes River in Turkey and Syria. It rises in the Kartal Mountains in Gaziantep Province of Turkey, flows south through the city of ...
, a river in Turkey and Syria
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Afrin Dam, dam on the Afrin River in northwest Syria
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Afrin, Syria, a city in northwestern Syria, administratively part of Aleppo Governorate
Institutions
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Afrin SC, a football club based in Afrin, Syria
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University of Afrin, an unrecognized university established in the city of Afrin by the Afrin Canton Board of Education
Products
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Oxymetazoline
Oxymetazoline, sold under the brand name Afrin among others, is a topical decongestant and vasoconstrictor medication. It is available over-the-counter as a nasal spray to treat nasal congestion and nosebleeds, as eye drops to treat eye rednes ...
, sold under the brand name Afrin in the United States, is an over-the-counter nasal spray medication to treat congestion
People
Given name
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Afrin Ali (born 1986), Indian politician
Surname
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Jill Afrin (born 1962), psychiatrist
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Nahid Afrin (born 2001), Indian playback singer
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Narin Afrin (born
c. 1974), militant
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