Tell Goran
| تل كوران Tell Goran |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 36 ′ N , 40 ° 25 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
| al-Hasakah | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY-HA | ||
| Residents | 0 (2015) | ||
Tell Goran , also Tel Goran ( Arabic تل كوران Tall Kaurān ), Aramaic-Syriac Jilu (جيلو) is an abandoned Christian village formerly inhabited by Chabur Assyrians in Syria in the al-Hasakah governorate on the Chabur River . The place was inhabited by about 160 people at the beginning of the civil war in Syria . The village has a Church of St. Mary, consecrated in 2009, and a school.
During the war the village tried to be spared from fighting through neutrality. In January 2015, Kurdish fighters from neighboring villages began shelling positions of the Islamic State. Then about 40 of the remaining 60 residents left the village. On the morning of February 23, the Islamic State occupied the village and captured the residents. They were later released on condition that they would not return to their village. The place has been uninhabited since then . In 2016, 50 former residents lived in Germany, 50 in the USA, 25 in Lebanon and 20 in northern Syria.
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Footnotes
- ^ Alberto M. Fernandez (1998): Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River. Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 12 (1), p. 41f.
- ↑ Bayard Dodge (1940): The settlement of the Assyrians on the Khabbur. Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 27 (3), p. 314. ISSN 0035-8789 doi : 10.1080 / 03068374008730969
- ↑ Report on www.esyria.sy
- ↑ zeit.de, Syria: The Exodus of Tel Goran , p. 5
- ↑ zeit.de, Syria: The Exodus of Tel Goran , p. 4
- ↑ zeit.de, Syria: The Exodus of Tel Goran , p. 6