Afrin

Syria / Hhalab / Afrin /
 city, capital city of state/province/region

Afrin (Arabic: عفرين‎, romanized: ʿAfrīn or ʿIfrīn; Kurdish: Efrîn or Afrîn‎) is a city in northern Syria. In the Afrin District, it is part of the Aleppo Governorate. The district has a surface of 2.033 km square and e.g. consists of 7 municipalities (Afrin (center), Jinderes, Sharanli, Ma'abatli/Mabetli, Rajo, Bulbul, Sheikh el Hadid) with 366 villages like Qatma, Qastall, Qibar and Rajo. The name Afrin has a Latin/Greek origin. The city named after the Afrin River.

The town of Afrin originated in the 19th-century foundation as a market. In 1929, the number of permanent residents was merely 800, growing to 7,000 by 1968. The town was developed by France under the French mandate of Syria. The main square is Afrin bus station, and the old settlement area stretches northward on the slope of a hill, but more recently habitations have spread to the other side of the river and extend as far to the south-east as the neighboring village of Turandah.
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Coordinates:   36°30'41"N   36°51'51"E