Qatma

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.

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Place details

Locality: قاطمة
Region: محافظة حلب
Country: سوريا
Population: 0

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Settlement.official_name: Qatma
Settlement.native_name: قطمة
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Katma (railway station).jpg
Settlement.image_caption: The railway station at Qatma
Settlement.pushpin_map: Syria
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Syria
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Syria
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Aleppo
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Afrin
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Nahiyah
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Sharran
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric

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Elevation: 600
Image: Katma (railway station).jpg

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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.