Al-Thawrah

Al-Thawrah
ٱلثَّوْرَة
Al-Tabqah  • ٱلطَّبْقَة
City
Al-Thawrah in 1995
Al-Thawrah in 1995
Al-Thawrah is located in Syria
Al-Thawrah
Al-Thawrah
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°50′12″N 38°32′53″E / 35.83667°N 38.54806°E / 35.83667; 38.54806
Country Syria
GovernorateRaqqa
Districtal-Thawrah
Subdistrictal-Thawrah
ControlAutonomous Administration of North and East Syria Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Elevation328 m (1,076 ft)
Population
(2004 census)
 • Total69,425
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3

Al-Thawrah (Arabic: ٱلثَّوْرَة, romanizedaṯ-Ṯawrah), also known as Al-Tabqah (Arabic: ٱلطَّبْقَة, romanizedaṭ-Ṭabqah, also aṭ-Ṭabaqah), is a city in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, approximately 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of Raqqa. The name "al-Thawrah" literally means "The Revolution", in reference to the Baathist March 8th revolution in 1963. The Tabqa Dam and Lake Assad on the Euphrates, an important energy source for Syria, are near al-Thawrah. The city had a population of 69,425 as of the 2004 census. It is part of the Tabqa Region of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.

Syrian civil war

Smoke rises in Tabqa after the city was hit by a Syrian Air Force airstrike in June 2013

On 26 November 2012, during the Syrian civil war, a main route from Raqqa to Aleppo passing through al-Thawrah along the Euphrates was dotted with both government and Syrian rebel checkpoints. On 11 February 2013, rebel groups including the al-Nusra Front and Liwa Owais al-Qorani took over the city. On 21 November, there was fierce fighting between government troops and rebels in the town, but by 25 November, the rebels were back in control. The Islamic State took control in January 2014.

On 22 March 2017, SOHR reported that an international coalition airstrike killed or injured more than 40 people. The BBC reported 27 killed and 40 wounded. During ISIL rule, the town's Catholic, Antiochian Orthodox Church and Assyrian Church of the East churches were turned into a parking garage, a weapons factory and a barn, with ISIL militants destroying all Christian symbols on the three churches. The Shia Omar Bin al-Khatab Mosque was destroyed and an Ismaili place of worship was turned into a children's training centre. During IS rule, high ranking IS members would reside in the city, escaping the bombardments on its capital Raqqa. The Syrian Democratic Forces captured the town in the 2017 Battle of Tabqa during which an estimated 40% of the buildings were either damaged or destroyed.

Demographics

Prior to the Civil War, the majority of the city's inhabitants were Sunni Arabs, with Kurdish, Armenian, Assyrian as well as Ismaili and Shiite Arab minorities. The Assyrian minority consisted of around 1,000 people, with about half belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, originating from the Khabour River villages, and the other half being Syriac Orthodox Christians, along with a few Chaldean Catholic, Syriac Catholic and Protestant families. But now the Christians have left and very few returned after liberation.[citation needed]

Al-Thawrah is the administrative centre of Nahiya Al-Tabqah and the Al-Thawrah District.

Climate

Climate data for Al-Thawrah
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 11.1
(52.0)
13.8
(56.8)
18.5
(65.3)
24.2
(75.6)
30.3
(86.5)
35.1
(95.2)
37.7
(99.9)
37.7
(99.9)
34.2
(93.6)
27.9
(82.2)
20.0
(68.0)
12.7
(54.9)
25.3
(77.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) 6.0
(42.8)
8.0
(46.4)
11.9
(53.4)
16.8
(62.2)
22.2
(72.0)
26.6
(79.9)
29.0
(84.2)
29.0
(84.2)
25.4
(77.7)
19.6
(67.3)
12.8
(55.0)
7.5
(45.5)
17.9
(64.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 1.0
(33.8)
2.2
(36.0)
5.4
(41.7)
9.4
(48.9)
14.2
(57.6)
18.2
(64.8)
20.4
(68.7)
20.4
(68.7)
16.6
(61.9)
11.3
(52.3)
5.7
(42.3)
2.3
(36.1)
10.6
(51.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 37
(1.5)
24
(0.9)
34
(1.3)
25
(1.0)
15
(0.6)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
1
(0.0)
10
(0.4)
18
(0.7)
32
(1.3)
196
(7.7)
Source: Climate-Data.org

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