Tell Abyad

Turkey / Sanliurfa / Harran /
Tell Abyad (Arabic: تل أبيض‎, lit. 'White Hill', Kurdish: Girê Spî‎, Turkish: Tellebyad, Armenian: Թել Աբյադ, Classical Syriac: ܬܠ ܐܒܝܕ‎) is a town and nahiya in Syria. It is the administrative center of the Tell Abyad District within the Raqqa Governorate. Located along the Balikh River, it constitutes a divided city with the bordering city of Akçakale in Turkey.

Tel Abyad is an important international center between Syria and Turkey, and the movement and activity of semi-permanent than the form of its international commercial activity as well, and in the city their is a station for air monitoring, and many cultural and tourist events.

And the large number of springs and beautiful nature means the city and around the visitors and tourists intent recreation, and Ein bride is considered an important tourist destination for tourists who come for the region and the people of Raqqa and residents of the area due to the nature and scenic and beautiful appearance.

Residents of Tel Abyad practiced commercial and agricultural activities and certain industrial activities, and some practiced irrigated agriculture in a way that gardening watered from Ain horse and Salola, over an area of ​​more than 200 h. They are working to increase the agricultural area, the most important crops are wheat, barley, corn, cotton, apricots, pomegranate and walnuts. Another class act in the internal trade market, which cut off the city from north to south and from east to west, in addition to some of the factories and industries and occupations and work in the mechanical and electrical workshops to serve the agricultural work, machinery and equipment of all kinds, the city is supplied with fresh wells many and from the Balikh River.
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Coordinates:   36°41'23"N   38°57'15"E

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