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Qatma
قطمة | |
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Village | |
.jpg) The railway station at Qatma | |
  Qatma Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36°35′N 36°57′E / 36.583°N 36.950°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Aleppo Governorate |
| District | Afrin District |
| Nahiyah | Sharran |
| Control |  Turkey Syrian Interim Government |
| Elevation | 600 m (2,000 ft) |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
• Total | 1,215 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Qaṭma (Arabic: قطمة; Kurdish: Qitmê) also spelled Katma is a village in northwestern Syria, within the Afrin District (Aleppo Governorate). It lied within the de facto Afrin Canton of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria since January 2014, until it was captured by the Syrian National Army on March 7, 2018.[citation needed] Its located to the northeast of Afrin and west of Azaz. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qaṭma had a population of 1,215 in the 2004 census.[1]
In late 19th century, German orientalist Martin Hartmann noted Qatma as a settlement with 25 houses inhabited by Sunni Muslims, who spoke Arabic.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Hartmann, Martin (1894). Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket. Berlin: W. Pormetter. p. 92, 93.
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