Qatma
Sign in to saveQaṭma (; Kurdish: Qitmê) also spelled Katma is a village in northwestern Syria, within the Afrin District (Aleppo Governorate). It lied within the de facto Afrin Canton of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria since January 2014, until it was captured by the Syrian National Army on March 7, 2018. Its located to the northeast of Afrin and west of Azaz. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qaṭma had a population of 1,215 in the 2004 census.
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- Qatma
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- قطمة
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- Village
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- Katma (railway station).jpg
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- The railway station at Qatma
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- Syria
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- bottom
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- 250
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- Location in Syria
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- Syria
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- Governorate
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- Aleppo
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- District
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- Afrin
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- Nahiyah
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- Sharran
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- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Sharran Subdistrict
- Elevation
- 600
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- Katma (railway station).jpg
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Qaṭma (; Kurdish: Qitmê) also spelled Katma is a village in northwestern Syria, within the Afrin District (Aleppo Governorate). It lied within the de facto Afrin Canton of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria since January 2014, until it was captured by the Syrian National Army on March 7, 2018. Its located to the northeast of Afrin and west of Azaz. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qaṭma had a population of 1,215 in the 2004 census.
Formerly a station on the Baghdad Railway, which connected Istanbul and Aleppo, in the 1920s it became the administrative center of the area. Today, Qatme forms a small cluster of Yazidi villages alongside Sinka, Baflun, and Qestel Jindo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qatma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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