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Afrin (Template:Lang-ku, Template:Lang-ar ʿAfrīn) is a district of Aleppo Governorate, Syria, in a region known as Kurd-Dagh. The district consists of the town of the same name with 80,000 inhabitants, as well as 366 surrounding villages.
Afrin is the designation both for a district region in the Syrian province Aleppo , as well as for the government city of the same name (with approximately 80,000 inhabitants). The region Afrin known as , far admits. The district has a surface of 3.850 square kilometer and e.g. consists of 7 municipalities (Afrin (center), Jindêrês, Sharan, Mahbata/Mahbatli, Rajo, Bulbul, Shiyê) with 366 villages like Qatma, Kastall, Qîbar, Rajo and Midan Akbes. The name Afrîn means on Kurdish literally fruitfully creation.
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36°30′36″N 36°52′04″E / 36.51000°N 36.86778°E / 36.51000; 36.86778 Afrin is a pure Kurdish .The first resistence against French troops was based on DECO and Shikakies tribes in northern Afrin. The city was later built by France to make it as a commercial center
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