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{{Infobox settlement
|name =Tell Tamer
|native_name = تل تمر
|other_name = Tella Tamra
|settlement_type =Town
|pushpin_map = Syria
|pushpin_label_position =bottom
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|pushpin_map_caption =
|coordinates_region = SY
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Syria}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[Governorates of Syria|Governorate]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Al-Hasakah Governorate|Al-Hasakah]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[Districts of Syria|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Al-Hasakah District|Al-Hasakah]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[Nahiyah]]
|subdivision_name3 = Tell Tamer
|timezone = [[Eastern European Time|EET]]
|utc_offset = +3
|timezone_DST = [[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]
|utc_offset_DST = +2
|latd=36|latm=30|lats=42 |latNS=N
|longd=40|longm=44|longs=32 |longEW=E
|elevation_footnotes = 
|elevation_ft =
|population_as_of = 2004
|population_note = Historical population estimates are as follows: 1,244 (1936); 1,250 (1960); 2,994 (1981); 5,030 (1993); 5,216 (1994); 5,405 (1995).<ref>Alberto M. Fernandez, [http://www.aina.org/articles/asotk.pdf Dawn at Tell Tamir], pp. 43-44</ref>
|population_total = 7,285
|elevation_m =
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'''Tell Tamer''' ({{lang-ar|تل تمر}}, {{lang-syr|ܬܠ ܬܡܪ}}, {{lang-ku|Girê Xurma}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peyamner.com/Kurdi/PNAnews.aspx?ID=355841|title=ISIS Attacks Tell Tamer|date=15 Feb 2015|work=Peyamner News Agency (in Kurdish)|accessdate=28 February 2015}}</ref>) is a town in northwestern [[Syria]], administratively part of the [[al-Hasakah Governorate]], located 40 km north of the city of [[al-Hasakah]]. Settled in the 1930s by [[Assyrians in Iraq|Iraqi Assyrian refugees]] fleeing the [[Simele Massacre]] in [[Iraq]], by the 1960s the village had grown into a town. According to the [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)|Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS), Tell Tamer had a population of 7,285 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 77 localities with a combined population of 50,982 in 2004.<ref>[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB08-2-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)|Syria Central Bureau of Statistics]] (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. {{ar icon}}</ref> The inhabitants of the town are composed of [[Assyrians in Syria|Assyrians/Syriacs]], [[Arabs]] and [[Kurds in Syria|Kurds]].

==Etymology==
The name of the town, "Tell Tamer", is derived from the [[Arabic]] and [[Aramaic]] words "tell/tella", both meaning "hill", and "tamer/tamra", both meaning "date". The name of the town therefore means "Hill of Dates".

==Demographics==
Its original inhabitants are Assyrians from the Upper [[Tyari]] tribe, who came to the area from [[Hakkari]] region in [[Turkey]] via [[Iraq]].<ref>Fernandez, Alberto M. [http://www.aina.org/articles/asotk.pdf Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River]. ''Assyrian International News Agency''. p. 41.</ref> As late as the 1960s, they still comprised virtually the entire population of the town.<ref>Alberto M. Fernandez, [http://www.aina.org/articles/asotk.pdf Dawn at Tell Tamir], p. 43</ref> The majority of the town's modern population is composed of Kurds and settled Arab Bedouins, while local Assyrian leaders in the 1990s estimated their own community's presence in the town to be around 20%.<ref name="auto">Alberto M. Fernandez, [http://www.aina.org/articles/asotk.pdf Dawn at Tell Tamer], p. 37</ref>

The pre-war scholarly estimates actually placed the total number of Assyrians which belong to the [[Assyrian Church of the East]] living across all of Syria at around 30,000 individuals, with between 15,000 and 20,000 (i.e., 2/3, at most) of them living along the Khabur.<ref>Alberto M. Fernandez, [http://www.aina.org/articles/asotk.pdf Dawn at Tell Tamer], p. 30</ref>

==Syrian Civil War==
An Assyrian exodus from the town began in November 2012, when [[Free Syrian Army]] soldiers threatened to invade the town. The exodus further continued when the [[Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]] took control of nearby roads just outside the town.

In October 2013, four Assyrians were stopped while driving in a car and kidnapped by [[Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]] terrorists.

According to the Syriac International News Agency, in May, 2014, the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] attacked an Assyrian village in the town, which prompted the Assyrians to call the Kurdish [[People's Protection Units]] to help protect them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.syriacsnews.com/assyrian-citizens-called-ypg-defend-isis/|title=Assyrian citizens called the YPG to defend them against ISIS - Syriac International News AgencySyriac International News Agency|work=Syriac International News Agency|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref>

Since ISIL militants captured the city of [[Ar-Raqqah]], some Assyrians from there and from [[Al-Thawrah]] fled to Tell Tamer as refugees. However, more than 500 Assyrian families have fled the town. Many Assyrians from the town emigrated mainly to the [[United States]], [[Europe]] and [[Canada]].{{cn|date=December 2014}}

On 23 February 2015, ISIL kidnapped around 220 Assyrians from villages surrounding Tell Tamer, and by 26 February, that number had increased to 350. On 1 March, ISIL released 19 of the kidnapped Assyrians.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11443872/Isil-frees-19-abducted-Christians.html</ref> On March 24, 5 more Assyrian hostages were released, raising the number of released Assyrian hostages to 24.<ref name="24christians">{{cite web|url=http://syriahr.com/en/2015/03/is-releases-24-assyrian-christians-so-far/|title=IS releases 24 Assyrian Christians so far|publisher=SOHR|accessdate=3 March 2015}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[Juliana Jendo]], prominent Assyrian singer.
*[[Omar Souleyman]], prominent Arabic singer.

==See also==
{{Portal|Syria}}
{{Portal|Kurdistan}}
{{Portal|Assyrians}}

*[[Al-Hasakah]]
*[[Assyrians in Syria]]
*[[Assyrian Democratic Organization]]
*[[List of Assyrian settlements]]
*[[Al-Hasakah offensive (February–March 2015)]]

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==References==
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*http://www.aina.org/articles/asotk.pdf
*http://www.aina.org/maps/khaburmap.htm

{{Al-Hasakah Governorate|hasakah}}

[[Category:Populated places in al-Hasakah District]]
[[Category:Assyrian settlements]]
[[Category:Towns in Syria]]

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