Amude
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عامودا / 'Amudah Amudah |
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| Coordinates | 37 ° 6 ′ N , 40 ° 56 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
| al-Hasakah | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY-HA | ||
| height | 470 m | ||
| Residents | 48,716 (2010) | ||
Amude ( Kurdish Amûdê , Arabic عامودا, DMG ʿĀmūdā ) is a city in the Syrian governorate of al-Hasakah on the border with Turkey . The city has 48,716 inhabitants, more than 95% of whom are Kurds.
Location
Amude is located west of Qamishli , on the road from Qamishli to Raʾs al-ʿAin (Kurdish Serê Kaniyê ) immediately south of the Syrian-Turkish border. The neighboring municipality is Dirbêsiyê. Amude is 470 meters above sea level.
history
Amude is one of the oldest cities in the governorate. Under the Ottomans , the city experienced great waves of Armenian refugees both before and during the First World War (see Genocide of the Armenians ). Most of the surviving Armenians and their descendants immigrated to the United States, Canada, and Europe by the late 1980s.
In 1936, the city and several nearby villages were bombed by the French colonial power after an uprising by Kurdish tribes, whereupon many insurgents fled to neighboring countries, especially Iraq, with their leader Said Agha Dakorî .
The place hit the headlines on November 13, 1960 when 152 children were killed in a fire in a local cinema. A well-known Amud named Mohamed Said Daqori saved several dozen children at the last minute and was killed in the process.
In March 2004, as in many other communities in Syrian Kurdistan, riots broke out between Kurds and state security forces in Amude after a few people died in Qamishli as a result of clashes between security forces, Baath supporters and Kurds in Qamishli . Various administrative buildings of the Syrian government were set on fire after Arab police shot dead several Kurdish demonstrators, including children.
Since July 2012, the city has been under the control of the PYD and is part of Rojava . In June 2013 clashes broke out between PYD militias and demonstrators, several of which were killed.
sons and daughters of the town
- Abdulbaset Sieda (* 1956), Kurdish-Syrian scientist and former President of the Syrian National Council
- Ferhad Ibrahim (* 1950), political scientist
- Helîm Yûsiv (* 1967), Kurdish-Syrian writer
- Zoro Mettini (* 1949), Kurdish painter and sculptor
- Mahmoud Dahoud (* 1996), German soccer player
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Calculation for the year 2010 on World Gazetteer.
- ^ Arabs, Kurds, and the social ties that overcome political conflicts. August 14, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2019 (American English).
- ^ The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview by Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Stefan Sperl on Google Books.
- ↑ Syria: Address Grievances Underlying Kurdish Unrest , HRW report of March 19, 2004.
- ↑ Syrian Kurdish Group Linked to PKK Kills Protesters ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Al Monitor, June 2013.
