Qîbar

Qîbar
Qîbar
Coordinates	36 ° 33 '  N , 36 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 33 '  N , 36 ° 54'  E
Basic data
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
height	415 m

Qîbar , also Arsh Qibar, is a village in Aleppo Governorate in northwest Syria . The small town is five kilometers northeast of Afrin .

history

Formerly part of the Kilis Province of the Ottoman Empire , after the border agreement between France and Turkey in the 1920s , Qîbar initially received the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon , which resulted in independent Syria in 1946.

population

In Qîbar mostly inhabited by Yezidi Kurds . In a rock valley to the south there is a cave with a shrine called Chail Khana , which is held sacred by the Yazidis because it protected the Yazidis from massacres several times. There they celebrate their annual festivals on a plateau. The shrine is occasionally visited by adherents of other religions. In Qîbar itself there is a Yezidi and an Islamic cemetery, as well as a mosque.

economy

The inhabitants live mainly from growing olives and working in the surrounding quarries . Every two to three years, water is directed to Qibar through a branch canal for field irrigation. The infrastructure is poorly developed: there is no sewer, power outages are frequent, and the place is not connected to the Syrian landline network.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Main Shrines in Afrin . ( Memento of August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) REEFNET 2009