Qaber Shamiyah
Village in al-Hasakah, Syria
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Qaber Shamiyah (Arabic: قبر شامية), also known as Dizen[2][3] (ديزن), is a village near Tell Tamer in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer.
Qaber Shamiyah
قبر شامية Dizen | |
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Village | |
  Qaber Shamiyah Location of Qaber Shamiyah in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36°34′43″N 40°26′50″E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | al-Hasakah |
| Subdistrict | Tell Tamer |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
• Total | 734 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
| Geocode | n/a |
The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, and Arabs.[4] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 734.[1] When the Islamic State group took over, the Saint George [5] church was burned. By the end of 2021, there were only three Assyrian Christians remaining in the village.[6]
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