Ra's al-'Ayn, Al-Hasakah Govrenorate

Ra's al-'Ayn (Arabic: رأس العين‎ Ra's al 'Ayn, Kurdish: Serêkanî‎, Clessical Syriac: ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ‎ Rēṣḥ 'Aynā, Turkis: Resuleyn) is a Sirie ceety admeenistratively belangin tae Al-Hasakah Govrenorate. Ra's al-'Ayn haes an altitude o 360 m. It haes a population o 55,247, mony o them being Assyries/Siriacs, Arabs, Kurds, Armenies, Chechens, an Sirie Turks. There is a border crossin tae Ceylanpınar in Turkey.

Ra's al-'Ayn رأس العين
Ra's al-'Ayn Location in Sirie
Coordinates: 36°51′N 40°04′E
Kintra	Sirie
Govrenorate	Al-Hasakah Govrenorate
Destrict	Ra's al-'Ayn Destrict
Elevation	360 m (1,180 ft)
Population
• Total	55,247

History

The ceety haes been inhabitit frae 1500 BC or earlier.

In auncient times it wis kent as Washukani,Sikan, Resaina, and Theodosiopolis. Durin the Armenie Genocide mony Armenies wur deportit tae the desert daith camps o Ra's al-'Ayn,^[1] a steid that wad become "synonymous wi Armenie sufferin".^[2] The ceety is the birthplace o the popular Sirie dabke muisicker, Omar Souleyman.^[3]

Sikan

The auncient Neo-Assirie ceety o Sikan is on the soothren edge o the mund at Ras el 'Ayn. Its location is near the modren-day Tell el Fakhariya, whaur a famous Neo-Assirie statue o Adad-it'i/Hadd-yith'i, the keeng o Guzana an Sikan wis discovered in the 1970s, with a bilingual inscription in the Assirie dialect o Akkadian an Aramaic, the earliest Aramaic inscription.^[4][5][6][7] The statue wis inscribit as a votive object tae Hadad, whose name the donor bore. It is generally datit tae aroond 850 BC, though an 11t century BC date haes been proposed an aw.^[8]

Ra's al-'Ayn springs

Ra's al-'Ayn haes mair nor 100 naitural springs. The maist famous spring is Nab'a al-Kebreet, a het spring wi a vera heich meeneral content, conteenin iverything frae simple calcium tae lithium, an even radium.