Tell Hamis

Tell Hamis تل حميس Til Hemîs
Town
Tell Hamis Location of Tell Hamis in Syria
Coordinates: 36°45′31″N 41°23′56″E / 36.7586°N 41.3989°E / 36.7586; 41.3989Coordinates: 36°45′31″N 41°23′56″E / 36.7586°N 41.3989°E / 36.7586; 41.3989
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	al-Qamishli
Subdistrict	Tell Hamis
Population (2004)[1]	5,161
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Geocode	C4639

Tell Hamis (Arabic: تل حميس‎‎, Kurdish: Til Hemîs‎), is a town in northeastern Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Wadi Jarrah flows though the town. It is the administrative center of Nahiya Tell Hamis consisting of 129 localities.

At the 2004 census, Tell Hamis had a population of 5,161.^[1] The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Arabs.^[2]

Syrian Civil War

After falling to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, it was retaken by Kurdish YPG forces and the Syriac Military Council (MFS) on February 27, 2015.^[3][4]

References

Al-Hasakah Governorate
Capital: Al-Hasakah
	Al-Hasakah District Al-Hasakah Abu Hajirat Khuatana Abu Tinah al-Alwa al-Arishah Bir al-Helou Bureij Sharqi Dashishah Gharbiyah al-Fadghami al-Fakkah Markada Ghabshah al-Ghariri al-Haddadiyah al-Hajiyah al-Hawl Al-Kharitah Khatuniyah Markada Markada Sharqiyah Qaber Shamiyah al-Sabaa wa Arbain al-Saadah Safia al-Shaddadeh al-Shaykh Hamad Sumayhan Gharbi Tell Arboush Tell Balouaah Tell Baz Tell Brak Tell Bureij Tell Damshij Tell Fuweidat Jazira Tell Goran Tell Hefyan Tell Hermez Tell Jazira Tell Jedaya Tell Jemaah Tell Kifji Tell Maghas Tell Majdal Tell Makhadah Tell Massas Tell Nasri Tell Ruman Tell Safouk Tell Sakra Tell Shamah Tell Shamiram Tell Tal Tell Talaah Tell Tamer Tell Tawil Tell Tawil Gharbi al-Tweinah Umm Ghargan Umm al-Keif Umm Madfaa
	Al-Qamishli District Al-Qamishli Amuda Jimaayah al-Manathirah al-Qahtaniyah al-Tannuriyah Tell Hamis Tell Maaruf Umm al-Fursan
	Al-Malikiyah District Al-Malikiyah al-Jawadiyah al-Muabbada Maashuq Sabaa Jafar Suwaydiyah Fawqani al-Tabaqah Tell Adas Tell Arab al-Yaarubiyah
	Ras al-Ayn District Ras al-Ayn Abu Rasin al-Darbasiyah al-Lid Dirbasiyah Mabrouka al-Manajir Tell Halaf Tell Sinan Sharqi Umm al-Dibs Dirbasiyah