جولة (۱۱) : حلب - منبج - تل تمر - اليعربية .. كتاب في ربوع سورية

Round (11) - Aleppo - Manbij - Tal Tamr - Al-Yarubiyah

It is a tour in which we walk along the margins of the desert in the Syrian Jazira at times, and at other times we cross fertile agricultural lands and oil fields, and we will follow the new road that was completed in the mid-eighties of this century. We were exposed to describing the road between Aleppo and Manbij in one of the tours of northern Syria. After Manbij, we will continue on this road, which puts us, after a distance of 24 km, on the right bank of the Euphrates, which is overlooked from the west by Jabal Al-Hamam, and we pass along its northern outskirts. The land in this sector has a clear indentation, but it is indented in the undulating plain, which stands out at its eastern edges with relatively high terrain (low mountains and hills). Rain-fed agriculture predominates on the lands we cross, especially the cultivation of wheat and barley. We also pass by a number of human settlements whose architecture is dominated by the traditional rural style of that environment, represented in earthen houses, some of which have a flat surface, while others are domed and half-domed, with some concrete houses. Among these communities, we mention the following villages: Danghuz Maghar (4 km) and Al-Mishrifeh (8 km to the south). (the road) and Karsan (12 km), and a big snake (15 km), and sheep (18) km). Less than a kilometer after a large lively village, a road branches southeast to the famous Najm Castle and the village of the same name.

After crossing the Euphrates Valley through a modern bridge built on it, we enter the land of the Syrian Jazira. We will walk east and then south-east to the famous town of Ain Issa in the governorate of Raqqa, and we enjoy seeing the desert in the spring, from which large areas were planted, and we will leave, 25 km from the Euphrates Valley, an archaeological site to the north of the road called Al-Karak, and we will pass after it some small human settlements such as Khirbet Al-Asheq and Kharab Al-Asheq, and then Khirbet Fleifel, located south of the road about 7 km before Ain Issa. We will pass to the north of Ain Issa, about 1.5 km, continuing east, then we will pass about 10 km later, the western Raqqa-Tal Abyad road, and we will leave the village of Shirkrak on our right, and we will walk a distance for you before we cross the valley of the Balikh River, then we will pass after it the village of Skeiro, to pass after it by about 3 km - At the village of Al-Mushairfa - Al-Raqqa-Tal Abyad East Road, and let us continue east in the northern desert of Al-Jazeera, and let us leave the fertile irrigated land of Wadi Al-Balikh, and let us walk east for a distance of about 90 km in a land devoid of cultivation in general, where sheep breeding prevails, and human gatherings are very few. Between Wadi Al-Balikh to the west and Wadi Al-Khabour to the east, and what we pass through are small villages whose population does not exceed 500 people, and their inhabitants inhabit them in the spring season most of them abandon them after the grass dries up to migrate with their sheep to where the pastures are located, at a distance of 13 km east of the Raqqa-road. Eastern Tal Abyad, we pass next to the village of Al-Kantari located to the south of the road, and in the north of the road is a grain collection center, and the population of Al-Kantari does not exceed 400 people, and after about 15 km we leave the village of Twal Al-Aba to the south of the road by about Lakm, and we pass Al-Zaidi Rest House north of the road, followed by After about ten kilometers, the island rest house, where there are houses scattered on both sides of the road, followed by about 5 km of a botanical reserve and a special building for it, followed by a dirt road that goes north to a small human settlement called Al-Khafiya.

To pass and after passing the 110 kilometer signal from Al-Hasakah, we walk a distance of about 40 km without any significant human gathering except for four houses on the right of the road after we walked in the lands of Al-Hasakah Governorate for about 30 km, and that small gathering is called the name of Al-Rouj Salty. After about 25 km, we reach the western Ras al-Ain road (west of al-Khabour) and pass through this distance of the road many small human settlements, respectively: al-Rayhaniyya, al-Salihiya, al-Alia, and then two opposite villages, one to the north of the road called the village of Arbaeen and the other to the south of the road called Al-Kouzeliya, and it is only a distance of five kilometers after them, until we reach the western road of Al-Hasakah - Ras Al-Ain, to pass through it the village of Granada known to the residents as Laylan, and then to our right we leave the village of Al-Dashisha, and to our left the village of Al-Tawilah (north of the road) located on a high archaeological hill called Tal Al-Tawil . Before we reach the Khabur River, we will pass near the village of Al-Qahirah, which is dozens of meters south of the road, and we will line up with the houses of the village of Al-Aghibish on the southern side of the road, about 2 km before the Khabur River - Figure (32). Next to some domed earthen houses, and a few concrete ones. Thus, we cross the Khabour Bridge, leaving on both sides of the road after crossing the town of Tal Tamr, most of which is located north of the road and east of Khabur, and extends east to the eastern Hasakah-Ras Al-Ain road, so that we cross it and continue east within the lands of the upper island.

About 10 km before entering the lands of Al-Hasakah Governorate, we leave to the south of the road directly a human gathering called Artesia Al-Jadaa, consisting of several houses.

After heading towards you to the east from the Hasakah-Ras al-Ain road, we cross an irrigation canal whose waters are derived from the eastern Dam of Hasakah, and about 2 km before it we leave to the north.

The road To the south of the road is a hill called Tal Shanan, at its southern outskirts there are several residential houses. After the irrigation canal, to the north of the road we see about 500 small villages called Mushira, an ancient hill called Tal Ain al-Abd, and a small human settlement on its southern margins that bears the same name, next to several earthen residential houses beside the road. Wadi al-Khabour, to cross it through a terrain edge, and then walk for a distance of about 12 km through basalt lands in which there are many stones on the surface, and there is almost no vegetation in it. Let us re-enter within the plain lands after a distance of 21 km east of Tal Tamr, and let us leave on our left a small human gathering called Kufra before we cross Al-Hasakah - Ad-Darbasiyah road. After crossing it, we will see the village of Tal Baydar to the south, which lies at the northwestern fronts of an archaeological hill of the same name, and the land will become greener and the agricultural crops more fertile, and we will walk a distance of 28 km before we reach the Al-Hasakah-Amuda road, and in this kilometer distance we will pass near a number of communities Humanity, which is generally located next to ancient hills, as in Tell Rashid, Tell Khatoun, Tell Effendi, and Tell Ahmar. And many others, as shown in Figure (32). beside a number of other human gatherings as in; Umm Jahfa (north of the road), Medina (south of the road), Raghu (north of the road), Busaid (south of the road). We also see large numbers of archaeological mounds.

As we passed the Al-Hasakah-Amouda road, we will see Tal Shagar Baza (7 km north of the road) to the north. After that, we will pass about 4 km north of the road, with a small human gathering at its western and southwestern front. Another archaeological hill located south of the road, about 500 km from the site. meters, and a small human gathering at its northeastern front, next to two hills of Athriz that appear to us