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Notes

Stories

Short notes on the river, parish and harvest calendars, language at the table, and the rooms elsewhere that still say the town’s name.

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The river that named a town

Tel Tammer sits on the eastern bank of the Khabur, where irrigation made a market town possible.

Archive note

Wedding bread and winter kitchens

Food is one of the few inheritances that still travels intact — if someone writes the steps down.

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Letters from the diaspora

Tel Tammer is also the rooms elsewhere that still set a plate for someone who might visit.

Tel Tammer

تل تمر·ܬܠ ܬܡܪ

Hill of Dates · Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria

An independent digital archive of photographs, place names, and family memory from a town on the Khabur.

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