Al-Hasakah Govrenorate

The Al Hasakah Govrenorate (Arabic: مُحافظة الحسكة, Siriac: Gozarto) is a govrenorate in the far north-east corner o Sirie that haes the Euphrates river runnin through it. It is distinguisht bi its fertile lands, plentiful water, picturesque natur, an mair nor ane hunder airchaeological steids.

 Destricts 

The govrenorate haes 4 destricts (Mintaqa's):
 Al-Hasakah
 Al-Malikiyah
 Qamishli
 Ra's al-'Ayn

These are further dividit intae ? sub-destricts (nawahi).

 Demographics an population 
The inhabitants o Al Hasakah are composed frae different ethnic an cultural groups mainly Arabs, Assirians/Siriacs, Kurds, Armenians, an ithers.Syria - SunnisSyria (05/07) The population o the govrenorate wis estimatit in 2007 tae be 1,377,000.
Notable ceeties in the govrenorate an their estimatit population as in 2006 are:http://www.gazetteer.de/wg.php?x=1136937924&men=gcis&lng=en&des=gamelan&dat=200&geo=-202&srt=pnan&col=aohdqcfbeimg&geo=-3390

 Qamishli: 82,129
 Al-Hasakah: 81,809
 Amuda: 45,980
 Ra's Al Ein: 23,008
 Ad Darbasiyah: 21,865
 Al-Malikiyah: 18,448

 Sirian Census 1943 in Al Hasakah 
 Sunni Muslims       99.665 (68.26%)
 Shia Muslims           326 (00.22%)
 Alawis                  93 (00.06%)
 Ismailis                 8 (00.01%)
 Druzes                   0 (00.00%)
 Christians          42.496 (29.11%)
 Jews                 1.938 (01.33%)
 Yazidis              1.475 (01.01%)
 Al Hasakah         146.001 (100.0%)

 Airchaeology 
The maist prominent airchaeological steids are:

 Hamoukar: considered bi some airchaeologists tae be the auldest ceety in the warld
 Tell Halaf: Excavations hae revealed successive ceevilization levels an bonnie basalt sculptures.
 Tell Brak: Situatit haufway atween al-Hasakah ceety an the frontier toun o al-Qamishli.  Excavations in the tell hae revealed the Uyun Temple an King Naram-Sin palace-stranghauld.
 Tell el Fakhariya
 Tell Hittin: 15 layers o occupation hae been identified.
 Tell Leilan: Excavations began in 1975 an hae revealed mony airtifacts an biggins datin back tae the 6t millennium BCE such as a bazaar, temple, palace, etc.

It is weel kent that the Khabur River, which flows through al-Hasakah for 440 km, witnessed the birth o the some o the earliest ceevilizations in the warld.

 References 

 Freemit airtins 
 ehasakeh  The First Complete wabsteid for Al-Hasakah news an services


Category:Fertile Crescent
Category:Govrenorates o Sirie