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Tell Hamis تَلّ حَمِيس
Town
Tell HamisLocation of Tell Hamis in Syria
Coordinates: 36°45′31″N 41°23′56″E / 36.7586°N 41.3989°E / 36.7586; 41.3989
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	Qamishli
Subdistrict	Tell Hamis
Population	5,161
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Geocode	C4639

Tell Hamis (Arabic: تَلّ حَمِيس, romanized: Tall Ḥamīs) 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.

At the 2004 census, Tell Hamis had a population of 5,161. The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Arabs.

Civil war

After falling to the Islamic State, it was retaken by Kurdish YPG forces and allied Arab tribes on February 27, 2015.

See also

• Syrian civil war

References

1. ^ "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Hamis" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
2. "Kurdish forces regain new villages near Qamishli after ISIS withdrawal". Aranews. 2015. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
3. "Kurdish forces 'capture strategic IS Syria bastion'". AFP. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.

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Capital: Al-Hasakah
	Al-Hasakah District Al-Hasakah Abu Hajirat Khuatana Abu Tinah al-Alwa al-Arishah Bir al-Helou Bureij Sharqi Dashishah Gharbiyah al-Fadghami al-Fakkah Markada Ghabshah al-Ghariri al-Haddadiyah al-Hajiyah al-Hawl Al-Kharitah Khatuniyah Markada Markada Sharqiyah Qaber Shamiyah al-Sabaa wa Arbain al-Saadah Safia al-Shaddadeh al-Shaykh Hamad Sumayhan Gharbi Tell Arboush Tell Balouaah Tell Baz Tell Beydar Tell Brak Tell Bureij Tell Damshij Tell Fuweidat Jazira Tell Goran Tell Hefyan Tell Hermez Tell Jazira Tell Jedaya Tell Jemaah Tell Kifji Tell Maghas Tell Majdal Tell Makhadah Tell Massas Tell Nasri Tell Ruman Tell Safouk Tell Sakra Tell Shamah Tell Shamiram Tell Tal Tell Talaah Tell Tamer Tell Tawil Tell Tawil Gharbi al-Tweinah Umm Ghargan Umm al-Keif Umm Madfaa
	Qamishli District Qamishli Amuda Jimaayah al-Manathirah al-Qahtaniyah al-Tannuriyah Tell Hamis Tell Maaruf Umm al-Fursan
	Al-Malikiyah District Ain Diwar Al-Malikiyah al-Jawadiyah al-Muabbada Maashuq Sabaa Jafar al-Suwaydiyah al-Tabaqah Tell Adas Tell Arab al-Yaarubiyah Rmelan
	Ras al-Ayn District Ras al-Ayn Abu Rasin al-Dirbasiyah al-Lid Dirbasiyah Mabrouka al-Manajir Tell Halaf Tell Sinan Sharqi Umm al-Dibs Dirbasiyah

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