Manbij (Arabic: مَنْبِج, romanized: Manbiǧ,[2] Kurdish: مەنبج, romanized: Minbic,[3][4] Turkish: Münbiç, Menbic, or Menbiç[5]) is a city in the northeast of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, 30 kilometers (19 mi) west of the Euphrates. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Manbij had a population of nearly 100,000.[1] The population of Manbij is largely Arab,[6] with Kurdish, Turkmen,[7] Circassian, and Chechen minorities. Many of its residents practice Naqshbandi Sufism.[8]
On the course of the Syrian Civil War, the city was first captured by rebels in 2012, overrun by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014 and finally captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2016, bringing it into the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). Since 2018, after an agreement with the SDF, the Syrian Arab Army has been deployed on the city's periphery as a buffer between the Turkish occupation of Northern Syria and the AANES.
^ abGeneral Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-07-29 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate.(in Arabic)
^"من يسبق في السيطرة على مدينة منبج الاستراتيجية؟". DW (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 December 2019.[permanent dead link]
^"Hemo: Minbic ji bo Amerîka û Tirkiyê giring e". Rûdaw (in Kurdish). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
^"جیهانمۆسكۆ: سوپای سوریا بە تەواوەتی مەنبج كۆنتڕۆڵ دەكات" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
^Koparan, Ömer. "Münbiç'te terör örgütü YPG/PKK'ya isteklerini kabul ettiren halk, eylemlerini durdurdu". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
^"In the small city of Manbij in Syria, we could see US and Turkish troops shooting at each other if tensions continue". The Independent. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^Arpacık, Cihat. "Menbiç krizi Türkmen aileleri böldü". Independent. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
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