Qaber Shamiyah

Qaber Shamiyah قبر شامية Dizen
Village
Qaber Shamiyah Location of Qaber Shamiyah in Syria
Coordinates: 36°34′43″N 40°26′50″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	al-Hasakah
Subdistrict	Tell Tamer
Population  (2004)[1]	734
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Geocode	n/a

Qaber Shamiyah (Arabic: قبر شامية), also known as Dizen^[2][3] (ديزن), 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, and Arabs.^[4] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 734.^[1] When the Islamic State group took over, the Mar Chamoun church was burned. By the end of 2021, there were only three Assyrian Christians remaining in the village.^[5]

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. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
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): 41, 42.
3. Dodge, Bayard (1 July 1940). "The settlement of the Assyrians on the Khabbur". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 27 (3): 314. doi:10.1080/03068374008730969. ISSN 0035-8789.
4. 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.
5. MacDiarmid, Campbell (5 December 2021). "No Christmas celebrations for last three Christians in Syrian village". The Telegraph.