Ḥasakah, Al-

Ḥasakah, Al-

Syria
also spelled  Hassaka , or  Hasakeh 

      town, northeastern Syria. The town lies on the banks of the Khābūr River (a tributary of the Euphrates) at its confluence with the Jaghjaghah. Under the Ottoman Empire it lost its importance, but it revived with the settlement there of Assyrian refugees from Iraq during the French mandate of Syria after 1932. Now an important road junction near the Turkish and Iraqi frontiers, Al-Ḥasakah is the centre of an extensive irrigated-farming region.

      The basin of the Khābūr River, in which Al-Ḥasakah is situated, is the country's main wheat- and rice-producing region and, with improved irrigation, an important cotton-growing area. The completion of the Ṭabaqah Dam in 1973 with its hydroelectric plant provided for the electrification of villages in the area as well as increased power for industry. In the 1950s petroleum was discovered in the area northeast of Al-Ḥasakah. The oil is piped to Ḥimṣ for refining and to the Mediterranean port of Ṭarṭūs for export. Pop. (2004 est.) 211,300.

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