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Turkman Bareh

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Country
  
Syria

District
  
Azaz

Elevation
  
467 m (1,532 ft)

Governorate
  
Aleppo

Subdistrict
  
Akhtarin

Population (2004)
  
1,537

Turkman Bareh

Turkman Bareh (Arabic: تركمان بارح‎, Turkumān Bāriḩ‎, Turkish: Türkmenbarı), alternatively spelled Barih, is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. About 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of the city of Aleppo and about 13 km (8.1 mi) south of Syria's border with Turkey, it is administratively part of Nahiya Akhtarin of Azaz District. Nearby localities include Dabiq 5 km (3.1 mi) to the west and Akhtarin 4 km (2.5 mi) to the south. In the 2004 census, Turkman Bareh had a population of 1,537 with a dominative Syrian Turkmen majority.

Map of Turkmen Bareh, Syria

The town has been in close proximity to sustained fighting in the Syrian civil war.

References

Turkman Bareh Wikipedia