Qaber Shamiyah

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.

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Qaber Shamiyah قبر شامية Dizen
Village
Qaber Shamiyah Location of Qaber Shamiyah in Syria
Coordinates: 36°34′43″N 40°26′50″E / 36.57861°N 40.44722°E / 36.57861; 40.44722
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	al-Hasakah
Subdistrict	Tell Tamer
Population  (2004)[1]
• Total	734
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)
Geocode	n/a
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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 Saint George ^[5] church was burned. By the end of 2021, there were only three Assyrian Christians remaining in the village.^[6]

1. ^ ^{a b} "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. ^ "احتفال قرية "قبر شامية"". www.esyria.sy (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-08-30.
6. ^ MacDiarmid, Campbell (5 December 2021). "No Christmas celebrations for last three Christians in Syrian village". The Telegraph.

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