Digital archive · Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria
Tel Tammer
تل تمر
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Tel Tammer is a town on the Khabur River in northeastern Syria, about 40 kilometers from Hasakah and 35 kilometers from Ras al-Ayn. It is the seat of the Tell Tamer subdistrict and historically the largest of roughly 35 Assyrian villages founded along the river in the mid-1930s.
This site gathers photographs, place names, and family memory. Family pages will open as households send their own stories.
- River
- Khabur, eastern bank
- Region
- Al-Hasakah Governorate
- Settlement
- Mid-1930s
- Villages
- About 35 along the valley
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Geography, parish life, and agricultural roots.
The modern Khabur villages were settled by Assyrian refugees — especially Upper Tyari and Tkhuma tribal groups — after wartime upheavals in Hakkari and the 1933 Simele massacre in Iraq, under French Mandate and League of Nations arrangements. Families organized villages by tribe, rebuilt churches, and farmed wheat, cotton, and fruit with river irrigation.
By the late twentieth century Tel Tammer itself had become a mixed town of Assyrians, Arabs, and Kurds, while many smaller villages remained predominantly Assyrian. On 23 February 2015, Islamic State forces attacked villages near the town. Most families left. Some remain; many live in Syrian cities and in diaspora communities in Europe, North America, and Australia.
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Khabur River
Eastern bank; the water that made the town and the valley villages possible.
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Market day
Tel Tammer’s weekly market role between Hasakah and Ras al-Ayn.
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Wheat after harvest
Grain, cotton, and fruit orchards along the irrigated Khabur strip.
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Parish door
Village churches doubled as gathering rooms and, in practice, as archives.
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