Tell Massas

Tell Massas
تل مساس
Barwar
Village
Tell Massas

Location of Tell Massas in Syria

Coordinates: 36°36′31″N 40°23′59″E / 36.60861°N 40.39972°E / 36.60861; 40.39972Coordinates: 36°36′31″N 40°23′59″E / 36.60861°N 40.39972°E / 36.60861; 40.39972
Country  Syria
Governorate al-Hasakah
District al-Hasakah
Subdistrict Tell Tamer
Population (2004)[1] 231
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Geocode C4423

Tell Massas (Arabic: تل مساس), also known as Barwar (برور), is a village near Tell Tamer in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer.

The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East.[2] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 231.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Tamer" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 15 October 2015. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  2. Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 34–47.


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