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For other uses, see Bulbul (disambiguation). Village in Aleppo, Syria
Bulbul بلبل
Village
Bulbul is located in SyriaBulbulBulbul
Coordinates: 36°46′17.9″N 36°49′8.8″E / 36.771639°N 36.819111°E / 36.771639; 36.819111
Country Syria
GovernorateAleppo
DistrictAfrin
SubdistrictBulbul
Control Turkey
Syrian opposition Syrian Interim Government
Population
 • Total1,742
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Bulbul (Arabic: بلبل) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo near the Turkish border. Nearby localities include Maydan Ikbis to the west, Rajo to the southwest and Maabatli to the south.

Population

Bulbul is the administrative center of Nahiya Bulbul of the Afrin District.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Bulbul had a population of 1,742 in the 2004 census. The town is also the administrative center of the Bulbul nahiyah of the Afrin District, consisting of 34 villages with a combined population of 12,573.

As part of the ongoing Turkish demographic policies in its occupation of Northern Syria, while only 15 of the original Kurdish households remain in the town, 340 new families have been settled, all of them Syrian Turkmen.

Etymology

The word bulbul derives from Arabic: بلبل, meaning nightingale in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Kurdish languages, although in English, bulbul refers to passerine birds of a different family.

Syrian civil war

Main articles: Syrian civil war and Operation Olive Branch

On 3 February 2018, armed clashes broke out in Bulbul and Rajo between the Syrian National Army (SNA) and the Syrian Democratic ForcesKurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) amidst the Turkish military intervention to capture the Kurdish-held city of Afrin. The village eventually came under the control of the Syrian National Army.

References

  1. ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. Rojava Information Center. “Turkey's Track Record: The Occupation of Afrin.” Rojava Information Center. Rojava IC, July 5, 2021. https://rojavainformationcenter.com/storage/2019/11/Turkeys-track-record-The-occupation-of-Afrin.pdf .
  3. Fishpool et al. (2005)
  4. "Syrian War Daily – 3rd of February 2018". Syrian War Daily.
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