Al-Asharah
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Al-Asharah ({{langx|ar|ٱلْعَشَارَة|al-ʿAšārah}}, also spelled al-Ashareh or Esharah) is a town in eastern Syria, administratively part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, located along the Euphrates River, south of Deir ez-Zor. Nearby localities include al-Quriyah to the northeast, Makhan and Mayadin to the north, Suwaydan Jazirah to the southeast and Dablan to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Asharah had a population of 17,537 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative seat of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") which consists of seven localities with a total population of 96,001 in 2004. Al-Asharah is the third largest locality in the nahiyah.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110121559/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB09-14-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Deir az-Zawr Governorate. {{in lang|ar}} Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims. From Arabians Tribes of Tayy Al-Rahabi and Al Uqaydat.Smith, 1841, p. 174.
File:Al-Asharah nahiyah.svg of the Mayadin District.]]
History
Al-Asharah is built on the site of the ancient Aramean-Assyrian settlement of Terqa. A stele dated to 886 BCE honoring the victory of Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta II over the Arameans was found in al-Asharah. The stele is currently located in the National Museum of Aleppo.Nelles Guide, 1999, p. 127. Terqa was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian kingdom of Khana and continued to develop until the end of the Bronze Age when its decline began. Excavations in al-Asharah revealed evidence that Terqa contained urban institutions and its inhabitants had exploited the area's soil for economic benefit.Kuhne, p. 134.
In the mid-19th-century, it was noted by the Bombay Geographic Society that al-Asharah was a "little town" that consisted of an unorganized grouping of Arab huts and a population whose traditions suggested the place was ancient.Bombay Geographic Society, 1844, p. 180. From around that time until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, al-Asharah served as the center of a kaza ("district"), bearing its name, that was part of the larger Sanjak of Zor province. The kaza had two nawahi: al-Asharah and al-Busayrah.[http://tarihvemedeniyet.org/2009/10/zor-mutasarrifligi/ Zor Mutasarrıflığı]. Tarih ve Medeniyet. 2009.
In 1920, a meeting between officials and officers of the Sharifian Army and the nascent Kingdom of Syria was held in al-Asharah and hosted by Emir Faisal. There negotiations over the borders between Syria and Iraq were discussed and it was concluded the Abu Kamal would remain a part of the Deir ez-Zor province of Syria.Rush, p. 263.
In the early 1960s al-Asharah was described as a small village built on an artificial mound where Terqa stood.Boulanger, 1966, p. 490.
During the Syrian Civil War, the city was captured by ISIL during the second half of 2014.{{Cite web |title=Mapping Territorial Control in Syria |url=https://www.cartercenter.org/news/multimedia/map/exploring-historical-control-in-syria.html |access-date=13 July 2024 |website=The Carter Center}} On 6 June 2016, it was bombed by regime forces, resulting in the death of 17 civilians.{{Cite news |date=7 June 2016 |title=Russia-backed Syria regime bears down on key IS town |url=https://edition.mv/world/28 |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=The Edition}} The Syrian army captured town in 27 November 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-syrian-army-liberates-another-town-along-euphrates-river/ |title=Breaking: Syrian Army liberates another town along the Euphrates River |access-date=2017-11-28 |archive-date=2019-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622153306/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-syrian-army-liberates-another-town-along-euphrates-river/ |url-status=dead }}[http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=79508 With the support of the Iraqi, Iranian and Lebanese gunmen and the Russian cover… the regime forces almost end the organization’s presence in the pocket east of al-Mayadin and a town separates them from achieving the goal]
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|first1=Robert|last1=Boulanger|title=The Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2a8LAQAAIAAJ&q=Tell+Selhab+Hama|publisher=Hachette|year=1966}}
- {{cite book|title=Syria and Lebanon|author=Nelles Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCTszTdofMkC|publisher=Hunter Publishing, Inc.|year=1999|isbn=3886181057}}
- {{cite book|first=Alan de Lacy|last=Rush|title=Records of Iraq, 1914-1966|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c61tAAAAMAAJ&q=Asharah|publisher=Archive Editions|year=2001|volume=2|isbn=1852078200}}
- {{cite book|first1=Eli|last1=Smith|first2=Edward|last2=Robinson|title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt0uAAAAQAAJ&q=d'Helfaya|publisher=Crocker and Brewster|volume=3|year=1841}}
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