Cûmê (Arabic: جوم, Kurdish: Çeqelê Cûmê), formerly known as Çeqelê Cûmê, is a Kurdish village administratively part of the Jindires Subdistrict, Afrin District, Aleppo Governorate, in northwestern Syria. The village had a population of 346 according to the 2004 census,[1] and 1,205 according to civil registry records at the end of 2005.[2]
Cûmê | |
|---|---|
| جوم | |
 Interactive map of Cûmê | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Aleppo |
| District | Afrin |
| Nahiyah | Jindires |
| Time zone | UTC+3 |
| Geocode | C1421 |
Name
editThe name Çeqelê Cûmê derives from the Kurdish Jaqalli tribe. The addition of Cûm refers to the Cûmê plain, and was added to distinguish the village from others bearing the same name according to Dr. Muhammad Abdo Ali.[2]
References
edit- ↑ UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Syrian Population Localities, General Population Census 2004. Accessed 22 September 2013 Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 Dr. Muhammad Abdo Ali. Mountains of the Kurds: A Comprehensive Geographical Study (1 ed.). Afrin. p. 193.