Maabatli

Muarrata[1] (Turkish: Muarrata, Arabic: معراتة‎, romanized: Muarrata), or Maabatlı (Arabic: معبطلي‎, romanized: Maabatli or Mobetan), also known as Mabeta is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo in the center of Afrin District. Nearby localities include Afrin to the southeast, Rajo to the northwest and Jindires to the south. The town is also the administrative center of the Maabatli nahiyah of the Afrin District a combined population of 11,741.[2] Previously controlled by the YPG since 2012 as a part of the Afrin Canton, Syrian National Army forces took control of the city alongside the Afrin city center on March 18, 2018.[3]

Maabatli is the administrative center of Nahiya Maabatli of the Afrin District.
Muarrata[1]

معراتة
Town
Maabatli, Mabeta, Mobetan
Muarrata[1]
Coordinates: 36°33′45″N 36°44′18″E
Country Syria
GovernorateAleppo
DistrictAfrin
SubdistrictMaabatli
Control Turkey
Syrian Interim Government
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Demographics

The majority of its inhabitants are of Turkish ethnicity and also Kurdish Alevis.[4] [5][6][7] In the 1930s Kurdish Alevis who fled the persecution of the Turkish Army during the Dersim Massacre, settled in Mabeta.[7]

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References
  1. Günümüzde Suriye Türkmenleri (in Turkish) — Suriye’de Değişimin Ortaya Çıkardığı Toplum: Suriye Türkmenleri, p. 13 ORSAM Rapor № 83. ORSAM – Ortadoğu Türkmenleri Programı Rapor № 14. Ankara — November 2011, 33 pages.
  2. General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-07-30 at Archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. (in Arabic)
  3. https://twitter.com/SonKaleTurkiye2/status/975294335582441472
  4. "Afrin Mabeta'da Yağmur Dede Türbesi'ne Alevilerin ilgisi yoğun-VİDEO | Pir Haber Ajansi - PİRHA". July 26, 2017.
  5. https://www.pirha.net/tag/afrin-alevileri/
  6. "Afrin Alevileri: Seçimler demokratik gelecek için büyük fırsat | Pir Haber Ajansi - PİRHA". December 2, 2017.
  7. "derStandard.at". DER STANDARD.


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