Tell Shamiram or Tell Shamiran ( ar, تل شميرام أو تل شميران), also known as Marbisho (), is a village near

Tell Tamer Tell Tamer ( ar, تَلّ تَمْر, Tall Tamr, ku, گرێ خورما, Girê Xurma or Til Temir, syr, ܬܠ ܬܡܪ) also known as Tal Tamr or Tal Tamir, is a town in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the administrative ...

in western

al-Hasakah Governorate Al-Hasakah Governorate ( ar, محافظة الحسكة, Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḥasakah, ku, Parêzgeha Hesekê}, syc, ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܚܣܟܗ, Huparkiyo d'Ḥasake, also known as syc, ܓܙܪܬܐ, Gozarto) is one of the fourteen governorates (pro ...

, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the

Nahiya Tell Tamer Tell Tamer Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية تل تمر) is an ethnically Assyrian and Syriac subdistrict of al-Hasakah District in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Tell Tamer. At the ...

. The village is inhabited by

Assyrians Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyrian ...

belonging to the

Assyrian Church of the East The Assyrian Church of the East,, ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية sometimes called Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East,; ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية الرسول� ...

, and

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. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 811.

Geography

It is located on the Khabour River near the confluence with the

Zirgan River Zirgan (russian: Зирган) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative centre of Zirgansky Selsoviet, Meleuzovsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 4,125 as of 2010. There are 35 streets. Geography Zirgan is loca ...

, about south of the border with Turkey.

History

The village was settled by

Assyrian Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyrian ...

refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

s in 1933 who moved following the

Simele massacre The Simele massacre, also known as the Assyrian affair, was committed by the Kingdom of Iraq, led by Bakr Sidqi, during a campaign systematically targeting the Assyrians in and around Simele in August 1933. An estimated 600 to 6,000 Assyrians ...

to French controlled Syria to settle in a stretch of the Khabur River in 35 settlements. In February 2015 the village was taken by the

Islamic State An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...

militia during the

Eastern al-Hasakah offensive The Eastern al-Hasakah offensive was launched in the Al-Hasakah Governorate during the Syrian Civil War, by the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units, Assyrian Christian militias, and allied Arab forces against the jihadist Islamic State of ...

, resulting in the

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of about 90, mainly elderly, residents. Several thousand residents fled the city, mostly to the city of al-Hasakah, with some eventually reaching

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the village has been emptied of people by 1 March 2015.Johnlee Varghese March 1, 201
Over 200 Abducted Assyrian Christians Being Tried by Isis Kangaroo Court

References

Assyrian communities in Syria {{Syria-geo-stub

Geography

History

See also

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