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Tell Sakra

Coordinates: 36°34′30″N 40°31′52″E / 36.57500°N 40.53111°E / 36.57500; 40.53111
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Tell Sakra
تل سكرة
Gundikta
Village
Tell Sakra is located in Syria
Tell Sakra
Tell Sakra
Location of Tell Sakra in Syria
Coordinates: 36°34′30″N 40°31′52″E / 36.57500°N 40.53111°E / 36.57500; 40.53111
Country Syria
Governorateal-Hasakah
Districtal-Hasakah
SubdistrictTell Tamer
Population
 (2004)[1]
307
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
GeocodeC4392

Tell Sakra (Arabic: تل سكرة), also known as Gundikta[2][3] (كوندكنايا), 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 the Chaldean Catholic Church.[4] At the 2004 census, it had a population of 307.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Tamer" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42.
  3. ^ Dodge, Bayard (1 July 1940). "The settlement of the Assyrians on the Khabbur". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 27 (3): 314. doi:10.1080/03068374008730969. ISSN 0035-8789.
  4. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamer: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 34–47.