Tell Fekheriye
Tell Fekheriye is an ancient site in the Khabur river basin in al-Hasakah Governorate of northern Syria. It is securely identified as the site of Sikkan, attested since c.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Syria
- Also known as: “Tell el Fakhariya”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gozana.
Gozana
Archaeological site
Susiana or Zazana, Zazannu was an ancient Mesopotamian city or town located by the Euphrates river. Gozana is situated 3½ km southwest of Tell Fekheriye.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ras al-Ayn and Ceylanpınar.
Ras al-Ayn
Town
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Ras al-Ayn, also spelled Ras al-Ain, is a city in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, on the Syria–Turkey border. One of the oldest cities in Upper Mesopotamia, the area of Ras al-Ayn has been inhabited since at least the Neolithic age.
Ceylanpınar
Town
Ceylanpınar is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,589 km2, and its population is 90,440. On the border with Syria, it is reached by a long straight road D.905 across the plain south from Viranşehir.
Tell Halaf
Village
Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in Al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the city of Ras al-Ayn near the Syria–Turkey border. The site, which dates to the sixth millennium BCE, was the first to be excavated from a Neolithic culture, later called the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs. Tell Halaf is situated 3½ km southwest of Tell Fekheriye.
Tell Fekheriye
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.84259° or 36° 50′ 33″ northLongitude
40.07098° or 40° 4′ 16″ eastOpen location code
8H82R3VC+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 4033376056OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q1149666
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tell Fekheriye” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تل الفخيرة”
- Arabic: “تل الفخيرية”
- Arabic: “تل الفخيريه”
- Bashkir: “Тель-Фехериә”
- Belarusian: “Тэль-Фэхарыя”
- Belarusian: “Тэль-эль-Фэхарыя”
- Dutch: “Tell el Fecheriye”
- Dutch: “Tell fakhariya”
- Dutch: “Tell Fecheriye”
- Dutch: “Washshukanni”
- Dutch: “Washukani”
- Dutch: “Washukanni”
- German: “Tell Fecheriye”
- Hebrew: “תל פחריה”
- Italian: “Tell Fekheriye”
- Japanese: “テル・エル・ファハリヤ”
- Japanese: “ワシュカンニ”
- Korean: “시칸”
- Latvian: “Tellfeherija”
- Persian: “تل الفخیریة”
- Persian: “تل الفخیریه”
- Polish: “Tell Feheriye”
- Russian: “Телль-Фехерия”
- Spanish: “Tell el Fakhariya”
- Turkish: “Tell el Fakhariya”
- Ukrainian: “Телль-Фехерія”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ras al-Ayn Hospital and Roj Hospital SRK.
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