Talk:Afrin, Syria

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Afrin [Kurdish: Afrîn or Efrîn, Arabic: عفرين, مدينة عفرين ، مركز منطقة عفرين] is the designation both for a district region in the Syrian province Aleppo [Aleppo Governorate], as well as for the government city of the same name (with approximately 80,000 inhabitants). The region Afrin known as [Kurd-Dagh], [Kurdish: Çiyayê Kurd yan Kurmanc جبل الاكراد; English: Mountain of the Kurds and/or Kurd-Mountain, Kurd mountains] far admits. The district has a surface of 3.850 square kilometer and e.g. consists of 7 municipalities (Afrin (center), Jindêrês, Sharan, Mahbata/Mahbatli, Rajo, Bulbul, Shiyê) with 366 villages like Qatma, Kastall, Qîbar, Rajo and Midan Akbes. The name Afrîn means on Kurdish literally fruitfully creation.

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