al-Malikiyah

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المالكية / al-Mālikiyya
al-Malikiyah
al-Malikiyah (Syria)
al-Malikiyah
al-Malikiyah
Coordinates 37 ° 10 ′  N , 42 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 10 ′  N , 42 ° 8 ′  E
Basic data
Country Syria

Governorate

al-Hasakah
ISO 3166-2 SY-HA
height 490 m
Residents 26,311 (2004)
East view of the city
East view of the city

Al-Malikiya ( Arabic المالكية, DMG al-Mālikiyya ; Aramaic ܕܝܪܝܟ Dêrik ; Kurdish دێریکا هەمکۆ Dêrika Hemko ) is a district in the Syrian governorate of al-Hasakah and its capital. The district is inhabited by Kurds , Aramaeans ( Syrian Christians ) and Arabs . The population of the entire district was given in the 2004 census at 189,634. Tell Hamoukar is a well-known archaeological site in the district .

The city got its current name in the course of the Arabization of the politics of the “ Arab Belt ”. The namesake was the Syrian officer Adnan al-Maliki. The Aramaic name Dêrik refers to an original monastery. The northern part of the city is mostly inhabited by Muslim Kurds and the southern part of the city by Syrian Christians.

In July 2012, YPG fighters took control of the city. Today the district is de facto in the Jazira canton of Rojava .

  • Bafê bridge near the city

  • New Syrian Orthodox Church, Main Street

  • New cathedral

  • Chaldean Church

Cities in the district

city Kurdish name population
al-Malikiya (المالكية) Dêrik 26,311
al-Maabadah (المعبدة) Girkê Legê 15,759
al-Jawadiya (الجوادية) Çilaxa 6,630
al-Yarobiyah (اليعربية) Til Koçer 6,066

Personalities

Born in al-Malikiyah

Asya Abdullah (* 1971), Kurdish politician

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Syria: Christians without a Future | World mirror. Retrieved on February 14, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/syria1109webwcover_0.pdf
  3. ↑ City of Derik taken by Kurds in Northeast Syria | BEGIN ENGLISH. (No longer available online.) August 2, 2012, archived from the original on August 2, 2012 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The forgotten front in Syria . In: Vice . August 8, 2012 ( vice.com [accessed February 14, 2018]).