This article is about the de facto autonomous region. For the historical region, see Upper Mesopotamia. For the former Syrian province, see Al-Jazira Province.
De facto region in Syria
One of seven de facto regions of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria in Al Hasakah
Jazira Region
Herêma Cizîrê(Kurdish)
إقليم الجزيرة(Arabic)
ܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܓܙܪܬܐ(Classical Syriac)
One of seven de facto regions of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
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The regions of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Jazira Region in green.
Country
Syria
Governorate
Al Hasakah
De facto Administration
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Autonomy declared
January 21, 2014 (2014-01-21)
Administrative center
Qamishli[1]
Government
• Prime Minister
Akram Hesso
• Co-Vice President
Elizabeth Gawrie
• Co-Vice President
Hussein Taza Al Azam
Population
• Estimate
(2011[2])
1,512,000
Time zone
UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code
+963 52
Official languages
Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac
Map of Rojava cantons in February 2014
The Jazira Region, formerly Jazira Canton, (Kurdish: Herêma Cizîrê, Arabic: إقليم الجزيرة, Syriac: ܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܓܙܪܬܐ, romanized: Ponyotho d'Gozarto), is the largest of the three original regions of the de facto Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). As part of the ongoing Rojava conflict, its democratic autonomy was officially declared on 21 January 2014.[3] The region is in the Al-Hasakah Governorate (formerly known as the Al-Jazira Province) of Syria.
According to the AANES constitution, the city of Qamishli is the administrative center of Jazira Region.[4] However, as parts of Qamishli remain under the control of Syrian government forces, meetings of the autonomous region's administration take place in the nearby city of Amuda.[3]
The region has two subordinate cantons, the Hasakah canton consisting of the al-Hasakah area (with the Al-Shaddadi, Al-Arisha and Al-Hawl districts subordinate to it), the Al-Darbasiyah area, and the Tell Tamer area, as well as the Qamishli canton consisting of the Qamishli area (with the Amûda, Tirbê Sipî, Tel Hemîs and Tel Berak districts subordinate to it) and the Derîk area (with the Girkê Legê, Tel Koçer and Çilaxa districts subordinate to it).[5]
^Abboud 2018, Table 4.1 Cantons of the Rojava Administration.
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^ ab"Al-Qamishli to be capital city of Jazeera Canton in Syrian Kurdistan". Firat News. 26 January 2014.
^"The Constitution of the Rojava Cantons". Personal Website of Mutlu Civiroglu. 28 April 2014.
^"Cizîre region's administrative division | ANHA". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
The JaziraRegion, formerly Jazira Canton, (Kurdish: Herêma Cizîrê, Arabic: إقليم الجزيرة, Syriac: ܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܓܙܪܬܐ, romanized: Ponyotho d'Gozarto), is the...
Muslim conquests of the mid-7th century, the region has been known by the traditional Arabic name of al-Jazira (Arabic: الجزيرة "the island", also transliterated...
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is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. It consists of self-governing sub-regions in the areas of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates, Raqqa, Tabqa...
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Syria (AANES). The AANES, consisting of three regions (Afrin, Euphrates and Jazira), was formed in early 2014 in the context of the Syrian Civil War, a conflict...
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of Tell Abyad from the Islamic State. Geographically focused on the JaziraRegion in northeast Syria were the Assyrian Syriac Military Council (Mawtbo...
of these reserves began in 2007. Al-Hasakah province, also known as Jaziraregion, has geopolitical importance of oil and is suitable for agricultural...
(with the exception of JaziraRegion (Qamishli)) in Arabic and a 3-letter Latin code derived from Kurdish. As for the JaziraRegion, license plates are issued...
ez-Zor were incorporated into the de facto autonomous region as well. Parts of the Euphrates and Jazira Regions also became occupied by the TAF and SNA after...
Academy started teaching. Following the University of Afrin, in July 2016 the Jazira Canton's Board of Education officially established the second Syrian Kurdish...
the Kurdish population in Syrian, the northern part of the Jazira, the central Euphrates Region around Kobanî and in the west the area around Afrin. All...
were held on 1 December 2017. Local councils for the JaziraRegion, Euphrates Region and Afrin Region were elected as well as for the subordinate cantons...
99 candidates for the JaziraRegion, with 124 candidates for the Euphrates Region, and with 197 candidates in the Afrin Region. The HNKS consequently...
ad-Din Gökböri), the emir of Harran, invited Saladin to occupy the Jaziraregion, making up northern Mesopotamia. He complied and the truce between him...
Elizabeth Gawrie is politician, who is Deputy Prime Minister of the JaziraRegion of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. She was elected...
the JaziraRegion, ending the truce between him and the Zangids. After a feint attack on Aleppo, he crosses the Euphrates. The towns of the Jazira fall...
areas and neighbourhoods. While Syriac was an official language of the JaziraRegion from the outset, in August 2016, the Ourhi Centre in the city of Qamishli...
as Khirbat al-Fakhar) is a large archaeological site located in the Jaziraregion of northeastern Syria (Al Hasakah Governorate), near the Iraqi and Turkish...
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