Ra's al-'Ayn, Al-Hasakah Govrenorate

Ra's al-'Ayn ( , ,  , ) is a Sirie ceety admeenistratively belangin tae Al-Hasakah Govrenorate. Ra's al-'Ayn haes an altitude o 360 m. It haes a population o 55,247, mony o them being Assyries/Siriacs, Arabs, Kurds, Armenies, Chechens, an Sirie Turks. There is a border crossin tae Ceylanpınar in Turkey.

 History 
The ceety haes been inhabitit frae 1500 BC or earlier.

In auncient times it wis kent as Washukani,Sikan, Resaina, and Theodosiopolis.  Durin the Armenie Genocide mony Armenies wur deportit tae the desert daith camps o Ra's al-'Ayn,World War One: The Global Revolution, By Lawrence Sondhaus, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 390 a steid that wad become "synonymous wi Armenie sufferin".Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, by Adam Jones, 2006, Page 110 The ceety is the birthplace o the popular Sirie dabke muisicker, Omar Souleyman.omarsouleyman.com (official web site) 

 Sikan 
The auncient Neo-Assirie ceety o Sikan is on the soothren edge o the mund at Ras el 'Ayn. Its location is near the modren-day Tell el Fakhariya, whaur a famous Neo-Assirie statue o Adad-it'i/Hadd-yith'i, the keeng o Guzana an Sikan wis discovered in the 1970s, with a bilingual inscription in the Assirie dialect o Akkadian an Aramaic, the earliest Aramaic inscription.A. R. Millard and P. Bordreuil, "A Statue from Syria with Assyrian and Aramaic Inscriptions" The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 45, 135-141, 1982Abu Asaf, Pierre Bordreuil and Alan R. Millard, La statue de Tell Fekherye et son inscription bilingue assyro-arameenne, A.D.P.F, 1982, ISBN 2-86538-036-XDouglas M. Gropp and Theodore J. Lewis, Notes on Some Problems in the Aramaic Text of the Hadd-Yith'i, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 259, pp. 45-61, 1985Jonas C. Greenfield and Aaron Shaffer, Notes on the Akkadian-Aramaic Bilingual Statue from Tell Fekherya, Iraq, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 109-116, 1983 The statue wis inscribit as a votive object tae Hadad, whose name the donor bore. It is generally datit tae aroond 850 BC, though an 11t century BC date haes been proposed an aw.J. Naveh, The Date of the Tell Fekherye Inscription, Shnaton 5-6, pp. 130-140, 1978-79

 Ra's al-'Ayn springs 
Ra's al-'Ayn haes mair nor 100 naitural springs. The maist famous spring is Nab'a al-Kebreet, a het spring wi a vera heich meeneral content, conteenin iverything frae simple calcium tae lithium, an even radium.

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Category:Assirie settlements
Category:Populatit places in Al-Hasakah Govrenorate
Category:Dividit ceeties
Category:Armenie Genocide