Umm al-Keif أم الكيفTimar | |
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Village | |
Umm al-KeifLocation of Umm al-Keif in Syria | |
Coordinates: 36°40′33″N 40°19′14″E / 36.67583°N 40.32056°E / 36.67583; 40.32056 | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | al-Hasakah |
District | al-Hasakah |
Subdistrict | Tell Tamer |
Population | 1,072 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Geocode | C4398 |
Umm al-Keif (Arabic: أم الكيف), also known as Timar (تيمر), is a village near Tell Tamer in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer.
The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, and Arabs. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 1,072.
See also
References
- ^ "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Tamer" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
- Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42.
- Dodge, Bayard (1 July 1940). "The settlement of the Assyrians on the Khabbur". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 27 (3): 314. doi:10.1080/03068374008730969. ISSN 0035-8789.
- Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 34–47.
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