Tell Jazira

Tell Jazira تل جزيرة Eiel
Village
Tell Jazira Location of Tell Jazira in Syria
Coordinates: 36°34′43″N 40°27′32″E / 36.57861°N 40.45889°ECoordinates: 36°34′43″N 40°27′32″E / 36.57861°N 40.45889°E
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	al-Hasakah
Subdistrict	Tell Tamer
Population (2004)[1]	190
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Geocode	n/a

Tell Jazira (Arabic: تل جزيرة‎‎), also known as Eiel (ايل), 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 190.^[1]

See also

• Assyrians in Syria
• List of Assyrian settlements
• Al-Hasakah offensive (February–March 2015)

References

1. "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.