Qaber Shamiyah
قبر شامية Dizen | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 36°34′43″N 40°26′50″E / 36.57861°N 40.44722°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | al-Hasakah |
District | al-Hasakah |
Subdistrict | Tell Tamer |
Population (2004)[1] | 734 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Geocode | n/a |
Qaber Shamiyah (Arabic: قبر شامية), also known as Dizen[2][3] (ديزن), is a village near Tell Tamer in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. Administratively it belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer.
The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, and Arabs.[4] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 734.[1] When the Islamic State group took over, the Mar Chamoun church was burned. By the end of 2021, there were only three Assyrian Christians remaining in the village.[5]