Al-Dirbasiyah
Al-Dirbasiyah
الدرباسية Dirbêsiyê | |
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Town | |
Al-Dirbasiyah Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 37°4′22″N 40°39′7″E / 37.07278°N 40.65194°E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | Ras al-Ayn |
| Subdistrict | al-Darbasiyah |
| Elevation | 300 m (980 ft) |
| Population (2004 census) | |
• Total | 8,551 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
| Area code | 52 |
Al-Dirbasiyah (Arabic: ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة, romanized: ad-Dirbāsīyah, Kurmanji Kurdish: Dirbêsiyê) is a Syrian town on the Syria–Turkey border opposite the Turkish town of Şenyurt. Administratively it is part of the Al-Hasakah Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Dirbasiyah had a population of 8,551 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 113 localities with a combined population of 55,614 in 2004. The majority of the inhabitants of the town are Kurds while Arabs and Assyrian are a minority.
It is connected by road to Tell Beydar in the south.