Al-Qahtaniyah, Raqqa Governorate

This article is about the village in Raqqa Governorate in Syria. For other towns with the same name, see Al-Qahtaniyah.

Al-Qahtaniya القحطانية
Village
Al-Qahtaniya Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°59′37″N 38°55′52″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Raqqa Governorate
District	Raqqa District
Nahiyah	Raqqa
Population  (2004 census)[1]
• Total	2,490
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)

Al-Qahtaniya (Arabic: القحطانية) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of Raqqa Governorate, located just northwest of Raqqa. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Qahtaniya had a population of 2,490 in the 2004 census.^[1]

On 26 December 2012, during the Syrian civil war, Syrian opposition activists reported that 20 people, among them children, were killed in the village of al-Qahtaniyah by Syrian army tank shells.^[2]

References

1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-03-09 at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
2. "Syria children 'killed' in Raqqa tank attack - Middle East". Al Jazeera English. 2012-12-26. Retrieved 2012-12-26.