جولة ١ : على ضفاف الخابور ٣_a .. كتاب في ربوع سورية

The northern village of Alwa, which extends from the fronts of the eastern mountains to the first plain of Wadi al-Khabour. After that prominence, the land opens westward towards the desert. After Alwa, we pass the village of Shmeisani (97 km from Deir Ezzor), most of its houses are located to the east of the road. After about 3 km, we pass the village of Zayanat, whose houses are scattered on both sides of the road, followed by the nearby village of Kashkash, located east of the road, which is almost To connect her homes with the homes of Zayyanat.

After a distance of about 107 km from Deir Ezzor, we reach the village of Azzawi, most of its houses are scattered to the east of the road, and its population is estimated at about 1,000 people. 300 houses, most of which are flat-roofed earthen houses.

After about 3 km from Alwat al-Sharqiya, we pass the village of Sheikh Othman, most of which extends to the east of the road. From its east, irrigated field crops (wheat, barley, cotton, etc.) appear after we lived through depression along the road, which we did not see greenery unless our view was a valley. Khabour. And another three kilometers after Sheikh Othman, we reached the village of Adla, which has flat-roofed houses extending to the east of the road, with a population of about 2,000 people. From it, we clearly see a huge archaeological hill to the northeast called the ancient hill of Shaddadi, and this is an indication that we are at the gates of the town of Shaddadi, which is only four kilometers away from Adla. And where we are shown by its beautiful entrance that leads us to it, and it is widely spread from the west - where the public road is - to the east - where the Yemeni bank of Khabour is about 3 km long, although its main construction is not far from the Khabour River more than 1500 meters. Al-Shadadi is considered one of the most developed villages in Wadi Al-Khabour, as it begins with -
From the mid-seventies - when the Al-Jibsa Oil and Gas Company began building housing for workers in its fields and to date, it has developed significantly urbanly, commercially and in services. Modern workers’ buildings (consisting of one and two floors) occupy more than two-thirds of the town, occupying the western part of it, while occupying the old core of the town with mud buildings Al-Qubbiyya occupies the part located to the east of Al-Khabour, while the middle-modern town, which dates back to the fifties and sixties, and what followed in some of them, occupies the part located to the east of the workers’ town and to the west of the course of Al-Khabour, about 1000 m away from the level of the river’s flood. In its material and its roof is flat. The number of residents of Al-Shadadi exceeds twice the number registered in its civil records (about ten thousand people for the large numbers of people from the governorates who live there and who are either working in the Al-Jibsa oil fields, or in its governmental institutions.

And as soon as we pass Al-Shadadi to the north by about 7 km, we reach the location of Km 47 from Al-Hasakah and the village of the same name, whose houses are spread to the west of the road, followed after about four kilometers by the village of Al-Atala, which spreads most of its houses to the east of the road, and which is almost connected to the village of Al-Kharaij to the west of the road. Immediately after this village, at a distance of 40 km south of Al-Hasakah, we cross Wadi Seili, which descends gently to Al-Khabur, leaving about 1 km after Khirbet Al-Hajji on the left of the road, and after about 2 km we cross Wadi Al-Faqr Al-Sili, and before it we see the ancient Tell Ahmar to the east of the road. After the aforementioned valley, we leave to the west of the road the village of Ajaja, and to the east of the road opposite the village is its famous hill (the ancient Tell Ajaja). About a km after Ajaja, we pass the village of Al-Hamdaniyya, followed by about 300 meters away from the village of Al-Julu, both of which lie on the road. And it's only three kilometers until we reach the town of Al-Arisha, which is to the west

The majority of its houses are spread to the east of the road, and it is the center of a nahiya based in Gharbi

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And as soon as we reach the distance 26 km south of Al-Hasakah, we will have reached the site where the Great Khabur Dam is being built, and by passing that by five kilometers, the village of Al-Dughairat, whose urbanization is spread on both sides of the road, will cross the village, and this village represents the last villages that we pass through on the way to Al-Hasakah. We reach the outskirts of the southern city of Al-Hasakah, and during this distance we enjoy seeing the eastern fronts of Mount Abdul Aziz.

As for the human settlements and archaeological hills located on the eastern side of Wadi Al-Khabour, which we pass through on our way back from Al-Hasakah to Al-Basira, they are the following: Kols, Al-Maarouf Tal (Maarouf), Al-Hadajah, Al-Tabba, Al-Hamra Al-Gharbia, Rad Shaqra, after which the road continues east to Al-Khatuniyah, Farah turns from it towards the south to continue along the Khabour Valley, to cross after that the Al-Hamr Al-Sili Valley, and to leave on the right of the road the ancient Tell Ateej and the surrounding human settlement that bears the same name, and after it the village of Tell Tinir, which is located around the aforementioned hill. After that, human gatherings continue on both sides of the road, especially on its western side, as we pass after Tel Tinir by the following gatherings: Al-Budiri, Shehab East, Shehab West of Al-Mashnafa, Tal Al-Raml followed by Wadi Al-Raml Al-Saili, and then the village of Al-Bureij and the site of the Great Khabour Dam between it and the village of Daibeel that follows it. , follows that; Ajaja Sharqiya (Haddadiya), Um Ruqiba Al Rashidiya Al Sharqiya, Al Henna Shurrab, Ghariri, and then we reach the two bridges of Al Shaddadi (the northern iron war and the modern southern cement) that lead to the western side of the Khabour Valley, where the town of Shaddadi. The remaining kilometers within the territory of the province

Al-Hasakah has about ten human settlements, the largest of which is Al-Fadghmi, located south of Al-Shadadi, about 18 km, after which the road becomes dirt until Sheikh Hamad Hill at the borders of Al-Hasakah Governorate with Deir Ezzor, and the last villages of Al-Hasakah on the eastern side of Al-Khabour is the village of Saada, close to Sheikh Hamad Hill. After that, we enter Al-Zour and take an asphalt road starting from the village of Ghariba, after which we will pass the villages of Mu’ajil, Busaiteen and Al-Jariya. About 500 meters after the village of Al-Jariyya, a road diverges towards the west for a distance of 500 meters, to reach the modern Tire Bridge on Al-Khabur, which leads us to the town of Al-Sur, located on the western bank of Al-Khabour. lands of Deir province

Continuing to the south after the road to Sur along the eastern side of Khabour, we pass the following villages: also Al-Namliyyah Al-Na’omah, Al-Kharija Al-Qibliya, Tayyib Al-Fal, Sukkar, Tal, Daman Ali Al-Shahal, Al-Masry, and after about 15 km, we reach the northern Euphrates road to the east of Al-Busayrah, about 2 km, to head west through it. Towards Al-Busairah, let us cross the Al-Busairah Bridge, which is built on Al-Khabour, about 150 meters before it meets the Euphrates River.