Kobani, the Glossary
Kobanî (rtl,, also rendered Kobanê, Kūbānī), officially Ayn al-Arab (ʿAyn al-ʿArab), is a Kurdish-majority city in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border.[1]
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- Euphrates Region
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- Populated places in Ayn al-Arab District
- Towns in Aleppo Governorate
Abdullah Öcalan
Abdullah Öcalan (born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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Airstrike
An airstrike, air strike, or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft.
Aleppo Governorate
Aleppo Governorate (محافظة حلب / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Ḥalab /) is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria.
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Ancona
Ancona (also) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of Central Italy, with a population of around 101,997.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
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Arin Mirkan
Arin Mirkan (born Deilar Genj Khamis) was a female fighter in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) who died fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobanî on October 5, 2014.
Armenian genocide
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
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The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Armenia, or simply Armenia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Soviet Armenia bordered the Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia and the independent states of Iran and Turkey.
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Armenians
Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.
Armenians in Syria
The Armenians in Syria are Syrian citizens of either full or partial Armenian descent.
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Arslan Tash
Arslan Tash (Arslan Taş "Lion Stone"), ancient Hadātu, is an archaeological site in Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, around east of Carchemish and the Euphrates and nearby the town of Kobanî.
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria.
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Ayn al-Arab District
`Ain al-`Arab District (manṭiqat ‘Ayn al-‘Arab) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria.
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Ayn al-Arab Subdistrict
Ayn al-Arab Subdistrict (ناحية مركز عين العرب) is a subdistrict of Ayn al-Arab District in northeastern Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
Banca Commerciale Italiana
Banca Commerciale Italiana (BCI, colloquially known as Comit), founded in 1894, was a major Italian bank based in Milan.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Berlin–Baghdad railway
The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway (Bağdat Demiryolu, Bagdadbahn, سكة حديد بغداد, Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was started in 1903 to connect Berlin with the then Ottoman city of Baghdad, from where the Germans wanted to establish a port on the Persian Gulf, with a line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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Border control
Border control comprises measures taken by governments to monitor and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across land, air, and maritime borders.
Car bomb
A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) (المكتب المركزي للإحصاء) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Death of Alan Kurdi
Alan Kurdi (born Alan Shenu), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a two-year-old Syrian boy (initially reported as having been three years old) of Kurdish ethnic background whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea along with his mother and brother.
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Defend International
Defend International (commonly known as DI) is a non-governmental organization focused on promoting and protecting human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Districts of Syria
The 14 governorates of Syria, or muhafazat (sing. muhafazah), are divided into 65 districts, or manatiq (sing. mintaqah), including the city of Damascus.
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Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır (local pronunciation: Dikranagerd), formerly Diyarbekir, is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey.
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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Euphrates Region
Euphrates Region, formerly Kobanî Canton, (Herêma Firatê, إقليمالفرات, translit) is the central of three original regions of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, comprising Ayn al-Arab District of the Aleppo Governorate, Tell Abyad District of the Raqqa Governorate, and the westernmost tip of the Ras al-Ayn Subdistrict of the Ras al-Ayn District of Al-Hasakah Governorate.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Governorates of Syria
Syria is a unitary state, but for administrative purposes, it is divided into fourteen governorates, also called provinces or counties in English (Arabic muḥāfaẓāt, singular muḥāfaẓah).
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Hawar News Agency
Hawar News Agency (sometimes abbreviated ANHA) (وكالة أنباء هاوار) is an news agency.
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Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan (Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq.
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Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Jan Dost
Jan Dost, (Kurdish: Jan Dost; born 12 March 1965 in Kobanî, Syria), is a Syrian Kurdish poet, writer and translator.
Jarabulus
Jarabulus (جَرَابُلُس, ALA-LC:, Aleppo dialect:; Cerablus or Carablus; script) is a Syrian city administratively belonging to Aleppo Governorate, under the de facto control of the Syrian Opposition. Kobani and Jarabulus are towns in Aleppo Governorate.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.
Kobane Calling
Kobane Calling, titled Kobane Calling: Greetings from Northern Syria in the English edition, is a comic illustrated book written and designed by the Italian author Zerocalcare.
Kurdish Red Crescent
The Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor a Kurd; الهلال الأحمر الكردي) is a humanitarian nonprofit organisation operating mainly in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
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Kurdish tribes
The following is a list of tribes of Kurdish people, an ethnic group from the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan in Western Asia.
Kurdistan Workers' Party
The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
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Kurds
Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
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Kurds in Syria
The Kurdish population of Syria is the country's largest ethnic minority, usually estimated at around 10% of the Syrian population Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, constituting around 10 per cent of the population – around 2 million of the pre-conflict population of around 22 million.
Kurier
Kurier is a German-language daily newspaper based in Vienna, Austria.
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; al-intidāb al-faransīalā sūriyā wa-lubnān, also referred to as the Levant States; 1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, concerning Syria and Lebanon.
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Martyrs' Cemetery, Kobanî
The Martyrs' Cemetery is in Kobanî, in the Rojava region of Syria.
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Massacre
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.
Médecins Sans Frontières
italic (MSF; pronounced), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.
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Mürşitpınar
Mürşitpınar is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Suruç, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey.
Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Military Police (Russia)
The Military Police of Russia (Военная полиция России, or VP) is the uniformed law enforcement branch of the Russian Armed Forces, which is known by the official name of Main Directorate of the Military Police (Главное управление военной полиции Минобороны РФ), and it is operated by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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Nahiyah
A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.
Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
North Levantine Arabic
North Levantine Arabic (al-lahja š-šāmiyya š-šamāliyya, North Levantine) was defined in the ISO 639-3 international standard for language codes as a distinct Arabic variety, under the apc code.
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Ottoman Bank
The Ottoman Bank (Osmanlı Bankası), known from 1863 to 1925 as the Imperial Ottoman Bank (Banque Impériale Ottomane, بانق عثمانی شاهانه) and correspondingly referred to by its French acronym BIO, was a bank that played a major role in the financial history of the Ottoman Empire.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
People's Defense Units
The People's Defense Units (YPG), also called People's Protection Units, is a Kurdish militant group in Syria and the primary component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
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Politics of Syria
Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of a presidential republic with nominal multi-party representation in People's Council under the Ba'athist-dominated National Progressive Front.
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Polity (publisher)
Polity is an academic publisher in the social sciences and humanities.
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ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb (RW) is a humanitarian information portal founded in 1996.
Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Second Northern Syria Buffer Zone
The Second Northern Syria Buffer Zone, part of the Sochi Agreement (Soçi Mutabakatı, Сочинское соглашение), is a buffer zone in northern Syria between the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
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Sheikh Said rebellion
The Sheikh Said rebellion (Serhildana Şêx Seîd, Şeyh Said İsyanı) was a Kurdish nationalist rebellion in Turkish Kurdistan in 1925 led by Sheikh Said and with support of the Azadî against the newly-founded Turkish Republic.
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Siege of Kobanî
The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on 13 September 2014, in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city of Kobanî (also known as Kobanê or Ayn al-Arab) in northern Syria, in the de facto autonomous region of Rojava. By 2 October 2014, ISIL succeeded in capturing 350 Kurdish villages and towns in the vicinity of Kobanê, generating a wave of some 300,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled across the border into Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province. Kobani and siege of Kobanî are Kobanî.
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Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Suruç
Suruç (script; Sruḡ) is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Syria–Turkey border
The border between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Turkey (translit; Suriye–Türkiye sınırı) is about long, and runs from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the tripoint with Iraq in the east.
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Syriac Orthodox Church
The Syriac Orthodox Church (ʿIdto Sūryoyto Trīṣath Shubḥo); also known as West Syriac Church or West Syrian Church, officially known as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, and informally as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church that branched from the Church of Antioch.
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Syrian Army
The Syrian Army (SyA or SA), officially the Syrian Arab Army (SyAA or SAA) (al-Jayš al-ʿArabī as-Sūrī), is the land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces.
Syrian civil war
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors.
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Syrian Democratic Forces
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a Kurdish-led coalition formed by ethnic militias and rebel groups, and serves as the official military wing of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (also known as SOHR; المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان), founded in May 2006, is a United Kingdom-based information office whose stated aim is to document human rights abuses in Syria; since 2011 it has focused on the Syrian Civil War.
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Syrian Turkmen
Syrian Turkmen (translit; Suriye Türkmenleri) are Syrian citizens of Turkish origin who mainly trace their roots to Anatolia (i.e. modern Turkey).
Tell Abyad
Tell Abyad is a town in northern Syria.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkish Air Force
The Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri) or TuAF is the aerial warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.
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UNICEF
UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters.
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Widad Akrawi
Widad Akreyi is a Kurdish health expert and human rights activist.
Wiener Bankverein
The Wiener Bankverein or Bank-Verein (WBV) was a major bank in the Habsburg Monarchy and the First Austrian Republic, founded in 1869.
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Women's Protection Units
The Women's Protection Units or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia involved in the Syrian civil war.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
Zerocalcare
Michele Rech (born 12 December 1983), known as Zerocalcare, is an Italian cartoonist.
2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria
The 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, code-named Operation Peace Spring (Barış Pınarı Harekâtı) by Turkey, was a cross-border military operation conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and the Syrian National Army (SNA) against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and later Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in northern Syria.
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See also
Euphrates Region
- Euphrates Region
- Kobani
Kobanî
Populated places in Ayn al-Arab District
Towns in Aleppo Governorate
- Akhtarin
- Al-Khafsah
- Arima, Syria
- Arshaf
- Azaz
- Basufan
- Deir Jmal
- Inab
- Irhab, Syria
- Jalamah, Afrin
- Jarabulus
- Jindires
- Kafr Naseh
- Kafr Safra
- Kafra, Syria
- Kimar, Syria
- Kobani
- Maabatli
- Maskanah
- Menagh
- Rajo, Syria
- Sarrin
- Sharran
- Shaykh al-Hadid
- Tadef
- Tilalyan
- Tishrin, Aleppo
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobani
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