Qaṭma () is a village in northwestern

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, within

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 ...

(

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). It is also within

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, "de facto" autonomous since January 2014. It lies northeast of Afrin and west of

Azaz Azaz () is a city in northwest Syria, roughly north-northwest of Aleppo. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Azaz had a population of 31,623 at the 2004 census.

. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qaṭma had a population of 1,215 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. On March 7, 2018, the town came under the control of the

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. In late 19th century, German orientalist

Martin Hartmann Martin Hartmann (9 December 1851, Breslau – 5 December 1918, Berlin) was a German orientalist, who specialized in Islamic studies. In 1875, he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig as a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleisch ...

noted Qatma as a settlement with 25 houses inhabited by

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, who spoke

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