Maabatli (Al Ma‘baţlī)
Maabatli (معبطلي or Mobetan), also known as Mabeta, is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo in the center of Afrin District. Nearby localities include Afrin to the southeast, Rajo to the northwest and Jindires to the south. The town is also the administrative center of the Maabatli nahiyah of the Afrin District with a combined population of 11,741. Previously controlled by the YPG since 2012, Syrian National Army forces took control of the city alongside the Afrin city center on March 18, 2018.
The majority of its inhabitants are of Kurdish ethnicity and are mostly Alevis. In the 1930s Kurdish Alevis who fled the persecution of the Turkish Army during the Maras Massacre, settled in Mabeta.
The majority of its inhabitants are of Kurdish ethnicity and are mostly Alevis. In the 1930s Kurdish Alevis who fled the persecution of the Turkish Army during the Maras Massacre, settled in Mabeta.
Map - Maabatli (Al Ma‘baţlī)
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Country - Syria
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The name "Syria" historically referred to a wider region, broadly synonymous with the Levant, and known in Arabic as al-Sham. The modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. Aleppo and the capital city Damascus are among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt. The modern Syrian state was established in the mid-20th century after centuries of Ottoman rule. After a period as a French mandate (1923–1946), the newly-created state represented the largest Arab state to emerge from the formerly Ottoman-ruled Syrian provinces. It gained de jure independence as a democratic parliamentary republic on 24 October 1945 when the Republic of Syria became a founding member of the United Nations, an act which legally ended the former French mandate (although French troops did not leave the country until April 1946).
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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SYP | Syrian pound | £ or لس | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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AR | Arabic language |
HY | Armenian language |
EN | English language |
FR | French language |
KU | Kurdish language |