Suluk (Syria)
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سلوك Suluk |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 36 ' N , 39 ° 8' E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
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| District | Tall Abyad | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY-RA | ||
| Residents | 7825 (2004) | ||
Suluk , also Saluq ( Arabic سلوك), is a city and Nahiya in the Tall Abyad District , Syria , near the Turkish border. The place is first mentioned in a document in the early 13th century. The city itself had 7,825 inhabitants in 2004, the entire Nahiya 44,131 (2004).
During the Syrian civil war , the city was taken by various groups. Following the expulsion of ISIS , Suluk has been under the control of the YPG since June 2015 .
In October 2019, the city came under the control of Turkish and FSA troops in the course of the Turkish military offensive in northern Syria in 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guy Strange, le: Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500 . Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund , London 1890, p. 530.
- ↑ Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria) ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 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. , Accessed February 29, 2016 (Arabic)
- ↑ Lefteris Pitarakis, Bassem Mrque: Thousands of Syrians flee into Turkey amid intense fighting . In: AP The Big Story , June 14, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- Jump up ↑ Fighting in Northern Syria: Fierce battles with many dead. tagesschau.de, October 13, 2019.
