Tell Hamis
Town in al-Hasakah, Syria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tell Hamis (Arabic: تَلّ حَمِيس, romanized: Tall Ḥamīs, Kurdish: Til Hemîs) is a town in northeastern Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. The Wadi Jarrah flows through the town. It is the administrative center of the Tell Hamis Subdistrict, consisting of 129 localities.
Tell Hamis
تَلّ حَمِيس | |
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Town | |
 Tell Hamis Location of Tell Hamis in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36.7586°N 41.3989°E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | Qamishli |
| Subdistrict | Tell Hamis |
| Control | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Population (2004)[1] | 5,161 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Geocode | C4639 |
At the 2004 census, Tell Hamis had a population of 5,161.[1] The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Arabs.[2]
Civil war
After falling to the Islamic State, it was retaken by Kurdish YPG forces and allied Arab tribes on February 27, 2015.[3]
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