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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name                   = Al-Hasakah
| native_name                     = {{lang|ar|ٱلْحَسَكَة}}<br />{{lang|ku|Heseke}}<br />{{lang|syc| ܚܣܝܟܐ}}
| settlement_type                 = City
| image_skyline                   = Hasakah,armen.church.jpg
| image_caption                   = Assyrian church in Al-Hasakah
| pushpin_map                     = Syria
| pushpin_label_position          = bottom
| pushpin_mapsize                 = 250
| pushpin_map_caption             = Location in Syria
| pushpin_relief                  = 1
| subdivision_type                = Country
| subdivision_name                = {{flag|Syria}}
| subdivision_type1               = Governorate
| subdivision_name1               = [[Place:Al-Hasakah Governorate|al-Hasakah]]
| subdivision_type2               = District
| subdivision_name2               = al-Hasakah
| subdivision_type3               = Subdistrict
| subdivision_name3               = al-Hasakah
| coordinates                     = {{Coord|36|30|42|N|40|44|32|E|dim:30_region:SY-HA|display=inline,title}}
| population_est                  = 422,445<ref>{{cite web |title=world population review |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/al--hasakah-population |website=Al Hasakah population Estimate 2023 |publisher=world population review}}</ref>
| 
| pop_est_as_of                   = 2023
| population_demonym              = {{lang-ar|حسكاوي|Ḥaskāwi}}
| parts_type                      = Control
| parts_style                     = para
| p1                              = {{flagicon|Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria}} [[Place:Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria|Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria]]
| elevation_m                     = 300
| area_code                       = 52
| geocode                         = C4360
}}

'''Al-Hasakah'''{{refn|Also known as Al-Hasakeh, Al-Hasaka or simply Hasakah.|group=nb}} ({{lang-ar|ٱلْحَسَكَة|al-Ḥasaka}};<ref name="ref1" /> {{lang-ku|Heseke/حەسەکە}};<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-11|title=Interview: "When COVID-19 does arrive, these water cuts will kill people" - Sara Montinaro from Kurdish Red Crescent|url=https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/07/interview-when-covid-19-does-arrive-these-water-cuts-will-kill-people-sara-montinaro-from-kurdish-red-crescent/|access-date=2020-11-08|website=Rojava Information Center|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-13|title=Turkey cuts off water to Heseke. "Without water there is no life"|url=https://womendefendrojava.net/en/2020/03/13/turkey-cuts-of-water-to-heseke-without-water-there-is-no-life/|access-date=2020-11-08|website=Women Defend Rojava|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ISIS member captured in Heseke countryside|url=https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/isis-member-captured-in-heseke-countryside-44895|access-date=2020-11-08|website=ANF News|language=en}}</ref> {{lang-syr|ܚܣܝܟܐ Hasake}}<ref>Thomas A. Carlson et al., “al-Ḥasake — ܚܣܝܟܐ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/213.</ref>) is the capital city of the [[Place:Al-Hasakah Governorate|Al-Hasakah Governorate]], in the northeastern corner of [[Place:Syria|Syria]].  With a 2023 estimated population of 422,445<ref>{{cite web |title=Al Hasaka Population Estimate 2023 |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/al--hasakah-population |website=World Population Review }}</ref>  Al-Hasakah is predominantly populated by Arabs with large numbers of Kurds, Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians. Al-Hasakah is {{convert|80|km|abbr=off}} south of the city of [[Place:Qamishli|Qamishli]]. The [[Place:Khabur (Euphrates)|Khabur River]], a tributary of the [[Place:Euphrates|Euphrates River]], flows west–east through the city. The Jaghjagh River flows into the Khabur from the north at Al-Hasakah. A portion of the city is a Syrian government-controlled enclave, comprising the city center and various government buildings, with the rest of the city (and the surrounding countryside) controlled by the [[Place:Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria|AANES]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-deal-reached-hasakah-hmeimim-base/|title=New deal reached for Hasakah in Hmeimim Base|date=23 August 2016|access-date=19 January 2017|archive-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110171923/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-deal-reached-hasakah-hmeimim-base/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Hasakah,citadel.jpg|thumb|left|Excavations in 2007 on Citadel Hill. A barracks from the time of the French Mandate of Syria can be seen in the background.]]

An ancient tell has been identified in the city centre by Dominique Charpin as the location of the city of Qirdahat.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KnKOTissFQC&pg=PA41|title=Dūr-Katlimmu 2008 and Beyond|author=Hartmut Kühne|year=2010|page=41|isbn=9783447062091}}</ref> Another possibility is that it was the site of the ancient Aramean city of Magarisu, mentioned by the Assyrian king Ashur-bel-kala, who fought the Arameans near the city.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwwNS0diXP4C&pg=PA439|title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire|author=Trevor Bryce|year=2009|page=439|isbn=9781134159079}}</ref> The etymology of "Magarisu" is Aramaic (from the root mgrys) and means "pasture land".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SyFAAAAIAAJ|title=Land tenure and social transformation in the Middle East|author=American University of Beirut|year=1984|page=5|isbn=9780815660712}}</ref> The city was the capital of the Aramean state of Bit-Yahiri, which was invaded by Assyrian kings Tukulti-Ninurta II and Ashurnasirpal II.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLTYAAAAMAAJ|title=A Star is Rising: The Historical Development of the Old Testament Royal Ideology and the Rise of the Jewish Messianic Expectations|author=Antti Laato|year=1997|page=107|isbn=9780788504204}}</ref>

Excavations in the tell discovered materials dating to the [[History:Middle Assyrian Empire|Middle-Assyrian]], [[Place:Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] and [[Religion:History of Islam|Islamic]] eras. The last level of occupation ended in the fifteenth century.<ref name="ref1" >{{cite web|url=http://www.esyria.sy/ehasakeh/index.php?p=stories&category=ruins&filename=200909021500149|title=انهاء أعمال التنقيب في "تل الحسكة" الأثري|publisher=esyria.sy|date=2009|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref> A period of 1,500 years separated the Middle-Assyrian and Byzantine levels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.esyria.sy/ehasakeh/index.php?p=stories&category=ruins&filename=2009013020450315|title=أخيراً نطق تل "الحسكة" الأثري |publisher=esyria.sy|date=2009|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref>

There are numerous other archaeological tells in the surrounding area, such as Tall Sulaymānī, which is 7.6 kilometers to the north of the city.

In [[Place:Ottoman Empire|Ottoman times]], the town was insignificant.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Schmidinger|first=Thomas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omsMMQAACAAJ|title=Krieg und Revolution in Syrisch-Kurdistan: Analysen und Stimmen aus Rojava|date=2017-03-22|publisher=Mandelbaum Verlag|isbn=978-3-85476-665-0|pages=63|language=de}}</ref> Today's settlement was established in April 1922 as a French military post, which soon grew into a town.<ref name=":0" /> The establishment of new cities in northern Syria was deemed necessary by the authorities of the French Mandate because after the foundation of Turkey, all major economic centers were allocated to Turkey.<ref name=":0" /> After the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, many refugees fled to the area after their expulsion and began to develop it in the 1920s.

During the French mandate period, Assyrians fleeing [[Social:Ethnic cleansing|ethnic cleansing]] in [[History:Kingdom of Iraq|Iraq]] during the Simele massacre, established numerous villages along the [[Place:Khabur (Euphrates)|Khabur River]] during the 1930s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fernandez |first1=Alberto M. |title=Dawn at Tel Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River |journal=Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies (JAAS) |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=1 |url=http://www.jaas.org/edocs/v12n1/Fernandez.pdf}}</ref> French troops were stationed on Citadel Hill at that time. In 1942, there were 7,835 inhabitants in Al-Hasakah, several schools, two churches and a gas station.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} The new city grew from the 1950s to become the administrative centre of the region. The economic boom in the cities of [[Place:Qamishli|Qamishli]] and Al-Hasakah was a result of the irrigation projects started in the 1960s, which transformed northeastern Syria into a [[Biology:Cotton|cotton]]-growing area.

On 23 March 1993, a large fire broke out in the Al-Hasakah Central Prison after prisoners protested the conditions there, leaving 61 inmates dead and 90 others injured. The detainees accused the police chief and the Syrian forces of having set the fire. The government blamed five inmates, who were then executed on 24 May 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vdc-nsy.com/archives/44999|title = بعد 28 عاماً على حريق سجن الحسكة أهالي 61 ضحية مازالوا بانتظار تحقيق العدالة|date = 25 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad5620.html|title = Refworld &#124; Syria: Whether a fire was set at Hasaka prison on 24 March 1993 killing around 60 people}}</ref>

== Civil war ==

[[File:Battle of Hasakah.svg|250px|thumb|right|Frontlines in Al-Hasakah prior to October 14, 2019 {{leftlegend|#EDC4BE|Syrian Government control}}

In the Battle of Hasakah of summer 2015, the Syrian Government lost control of much of the city to the [[Religion:Islamic State|Islamic State]], which was then captured by the YPG. Afterwards, some 75% of Hasakah and all of the surrounding countryside were under the administration of the [[Place:Rojava|Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava]], while only some inner-city areas were controlled by the Syrian government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/07/25/Kurds-gain-ground-in-Syria-s-Hasakah-in-ISIS-fightback-.html|title=Kurds 'gain ground in Syria's Hasakah' in ISIS fightback|date=July 25, 2015|website=Al Arabiya English}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20140801_01200567|title=IS-extremisten rukken op in Syrië|work=Nieuwsblad|date=1 August 2014|access-date=11 August 2014|archive-date=12 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812210318/http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20140801_01200567|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ar/security/2014/06/syria-hassakeh-fears-raqqa-isis.html|title=Hasakah residents fear ISIS rally in east Syria|work=al-Safir|date=24 June 2014|access-date=11 August 2014|author=Halabi, Alaa}}</ref> The United Nations estimates that violence related to the civil War has displaced up to 120,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-idUKKBN0P707120150628|title=Kurds secure Syria's Kobani as Islamic State targets northeast|work=Reuters|date=28 Jun 2015}}</ref> On 1 August 2016, the Syrian Democratic Council opened a public office in Al-Hasakah.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.hawarnews.com/inauguration-of-the-1st-msd-office/|title=Inauguration of the 1st MSD office|publisher=Hawar News Agency|date=2016-08-01|access-date=2016-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804030218/http://en.hawarnews.com/inauguration-of-the-1st-msd-office/|archive-date=2016-08-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 16 August 2016, the Battle of al-Hasakah (2016) started, with the YPG and Asayish capturing most of the remaining areas held by government forces.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/syria-ypg-launches-assault-hasaka-160822041843880.html|title=Syria: YPG launches assault to take all of Hasaka|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=24 August 2016}}</ref> On 23 August 2016, an agreement between the YPG and the Syrian Army resulted in a ceasefire within the city.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=86190|title=Agreement to halt fighting in Hasaka enforced at 14:00 p.m.|newspaper=Syrian Arab News Agency|date=August 23, 2016}}</ref> Al-Hasakah has since been part of the Jazira Region in the framework of the ''de facto'' autonomous [[Place:Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria|Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava]].<ref name=census>{{cite news|url=http://syriadirect.org/news/%E2%80%98i-am-here%E2%80%99-new-census-in-northern-syria-seeks-to-document-unregistered-syrian-kurds/|title='I am here': New census in northern Syria seeks to document unregistered Syrian Kurds|publisher=Syria:direct|date=29 September 2016|access-date=11 December 2016|archive-date=16 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016205314/https://syriadirect.org/news/%E2%80%98i-am-here%E2%80%99-new-census-in-northern-syria-seeks-to-document-unregistered-syrian-kurds/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=supporters>{{cite news|url=http://aranews.net/2016/10/syrian-regime-supporters-protest-rojava-federal-project-hasakah/|title=Syrian regime supporters protest against Rojavan federalism in Hasakah|publisher=ARA News|date=2 October 2016|access-date=11 December 2016|archive-date=14 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214140654/http://aranews.net/2016/10/syrian-regime-supporters-protest-rojava-federal-project-hasakah/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In January 2021, Al-Hasakh, along with [[Place:Qamishli|Qamishli]], came under siege by the Asayish due to disputes with the Damascus government.

On 20 January 2022, the al-Sina'a prison came under attack by Islamic State forces who attempted to free ex-IS fighters that were incarcerated inside the prison. Following the initial attack, clashes spread to the neighbourhoods of al-Zuhour and Ghuwayran. After a 6-day battle, SDF and Coalition forces managed to push back the attack and secure the area. After thwarting their attack on Ghweran prison, they barricaded themselves in the Faculty of Economics building in the Syrian government-controlled areas in the city of Hasaka, targeting civilians and the movements of the internal security forces' vehicles. Accordingly, international coalition warplanes bombed the college building.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Coalition warplanes bombs building, group of ISIS cells holed up in Al-Hasakah - ANHA {{!}} HAWARNEWS {{!}} English|url=http://hawarnews.com/en/haber/coalition-warplanes-bombs-building-group-of-isis-cells-holed-up-in-al-hasakah-h28775.html|access-date=2022-01-29|website=hawarnews.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-01-21|title=Ghuwayran prison attack {{!}} International Coalition jets attack building ISIS holed up in Al-Hasakah • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights|url=https://www.syriahr.com/en/235578/|access-date=2022-01-29|website=The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Hasakah Security Box ===
The Hasakah Security Box is a [[Place:Syria|Syrian government]] enclave within Al-Hasakah, established in August 2016.<ref name="AMN">{{Cite news|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-deal-reached-hasakah-hmeimim-base/|title=New deal reached for Hasakah in Hmeimim Base|publisher=Al-Masdar News|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=January 12, 2017|author=Izat Charkatli|archive-date=November 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110171923/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-deal-reached-hasakah-hmeimim-base/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It contains the prison, immigration office, mayor's palace, police headquarters, and local army command center.<ref name="AMN"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds-idUSKCN10Y127|title=Syria Kurds win battle with government, Turkey mobilizes against them|author=Rodi Said|author2=Tom Perry|date=23 August 2016|publisher=Reuters|access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/middleeast/ceasefire-syria-kurds-hasaka/|title=Syrian military, Kurdish fighters reach ceasefire in Hasaka|publisher=CNN|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=January 12, 2017|author=Ralph Ellis}}</ref>

Following the second battle for the city in 2015, the Syrian government controlled 25% of the city while Rojava controlled 75%.
On August 16, 2016, a small skirmish erupted into the third Battle of al-Hasakah between Asayish alongside YPG and the Syrian government for al-Hasakah. After a week-long battle, Kurdish fighters secured control over 95% of the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aranews.net/2016/08/kurds-triumph-in-battle-against-syrian-regime/|title=Kurds triumph in battle against Syrian regime|author=Wladimir van Wilgenburg|date=August 24, 2016|publisher=ARA News|access-date=January 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010103926/http://aranews.net/2016/08/kurds-triumph-in-battle-against-syrian-regime/|archive-date=October 10, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{wipe|Russia}} mediated a ceasefire that was put into place on August 23, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aranews.net/2016/08/hasakah-truce-reached-syrian-regime-kurds-russian-mediation/|title=Hasakah: Truce reached between Syrian regime, Kurds after Russian mediation|author=Qehreman Miste|date=August 24, 2016|publisher=ARA News|access-date=January 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021223901/http://aranews.net/2016/08/hasakah-truce-reached-syrian-regime-kurds-russian-mediation/|archive-date=October 21, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Only civilian police officers and interior ministry forces were allowed to return to the Security Box to protect the government's department buildings. In July 2018, the Syrian Army raised the Syrian flag over the Al-Nashwa District that previously was controlled by the YPG and the Asayish security forces in the city of Hasakah.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-raises-flag-over-hasakah-district-formerly-controlled-by-kurdish-forces/|title=Syrian Army raises flag over Hasakah district formerly controlled by Kurdish forces|date=11 July 2018|access-date=11 July 2018|via=Al Masdar News}}</ref> However, in September through November 2019, Asayish forces were still present in al-Nashwa district and able to make arrests.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/3136|title=SDF kidnaps dozens of orphans and hundreds of youths in eastern Syria|date=2019-09-18|website=Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor|location=Geneva, Switzerland|language=en|others=Anas al-Jarjawi|access-date=2019-11-14|quote="According to local reports, the so-called military police and the Asayish forces, the security arms of SDF, arrested hundreds of young people of the Arab tribes this week [...] at Al-Quds park, Marshou, al-Kahrabah and al-Nashwa roundabouts in al-Hasaka."}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=1195028834766217218|date=2019-11-14|user=RojavaNetwork|title=+++Two ISIS {{as written|wom|ens [sic]}} fleeing from Al-hol camp were arrested by Asayîş internal security force in al-Nashwa neighborhood, Hasake city.}}</ref>
In March 2023 the US conducted retailiation strikes against IRCG forces in the city after a drone attack which killed a US contractor.

==Climate==
Al-Hasakah has a [[Earth:Mediterranean climate|Mediterranean]]-influenced [[Earth:Semi-arid climate|semi-arid climate]] (''BSh'') with very hot dry summers and cool wet winters with occasional frosty nights.

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==Demographics==

{{Historical populations
|type =
|1942|7835 |1981|73426 |1994|119798 |2004|188160
|
}}

In 1939, French mandate authorities reported<ref name="Algun">Algun, S., 2011. [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/205821 Sectarianism in the Syrian Jazira: Community, land and violence in the memories of World War I and the French mandate (1915- 1939)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209061554/https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/205821|date=2019-12-09}}. Ph.D. Dissertation. Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands. Page 11. Accessed on 8 December 2019.</ref> the following population numbers for different ethnic/religious groups in al-Hasakah city centre:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Arabs !! Kurds !! Assyrians!! Armenians
|-
| 7133 || 360 || 5700 || 500
|}

In 1992, Al-Hasakah was described as "an Arab city with a growing Kurdish population."{{sfnp|Vanly|1992|p=116}} [[Religion:Christians|Christians]]—mostly Assyrians, plus a smaller number of Armenians—also live in the city.<ref name=vice/><ref name=yahoo/>
In 2004, the city's population was 188,160.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} Al-Hasakah has an ethnically diverse population of Arabs, Kurds and Assyrians, with a smaller number of Armenians.<ref name=vice>{{cite news |url=https://news.vice.com/video/kurds-assert-control-of-hasakah-the-battle-for-rojava-dispatch-3|title=Kurds Assert Control of Hasakah: The Battle for Rojava (Dispatch 3)|publisher=VICE News|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref><ref name=yahoo>[https://news.yahoo.com/syrian-troops-regain-area-northeastern-city-134345306.html IS fighters stage surprise attack on key Syrian border town], The Associated Press, Yahoo News</ref>

==Religion==
There are more than forty [[Engineering:Mosque|mosque]]s in the city, as well as at least nine church buildings, serving a large number of Christians of various rites. The Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary is the episcopal see of the non-metropolitan Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Al Hasakah-Nisibis, which depends directly on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch.

===Churches in the city===
* Syriac Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George (كاتدرائية مار جرجس للسريان الأرثوذكس)
* Syriac Orthodox Church of Our Lady (كنيسة السيدة العذراء للسريان الأرثوذكس)
* Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (كنيسة سيدة الإنتقال للسريان الكاثوليك)
* Assyrian Church of Our Lady (كنيسة السيدة العذراء للآشوريين)
* Chaldean Catholic Church of Jesus the King (كنيسة يسوع الملك للكلدان الكاثوليك)
* Armenian Orthodox Church of Saint John the Baptist (كنيسة القديس مار يوحنا المعمدان للأرمن الأرثوذكس)
* Armenian Catholic Church of the Holy Family (كنيسة العائلة المقدسة للأرمن الكاثوليك)
* National Evangelical Presbyterian Church (الكنيسة الإنجيلية المشيخية الوطنية)
* Jesus The Light of the World National Evangelical Church (كنيسة الاتحاد المسيحي يسوع نور العالم)

==Districts==
The city of Al-Hasakah is divided into 5 districts, which are Al-Madinah, Al-Aziziyah, Ghuwayran, Al-Nasra and Al-Nashwa. These districts, in turn, are divided into 29 neighborhoods.<ref name=damacen>[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB08-1-2004.htm Al-Hasakah subdistrict population 2004 census] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408075107/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB08-1-2004.htm |date=2013-04-08 }}</ref>
{| class="toccolours sortable" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse"
|+
|- style="background:lavender;"
!English Name
!Arabic Name
![[Social:Population|Population]]
!Neighborhoods (Population)
|-
|Al-Madinah
|المدينة
|30,436
|Al-Matar al-Shamali (9,396), Center / Al-Wusta (6,067), Municipal Stadium / Al-Malaab al-Baladi (5,802), Al-Matar al-Janoubi (4,714), Al-Askari (4,457)
|-
|Al-Aziziyah
|العزيزية
|56,123
|Al-Salehiyah (21,319), Al-Ghazal (11,199), National Hospital / Al-Mashfa al-Watani (11,108), Al-Talaia (4,883), Abou Amshah (4,435), Al-Mufti (3,179)
|-
|Ghuwayran
|غويران
|34,191
|Sports City / Al-Madinah al-Riyadiyah (8,418), Al-Thawra (8,180), Al-Taqaddum (7,623), 16 Tishreen (5,595), Al-Zuhour (3,367), Abou Bakr (1,008)
|-
|Al-Nasra
|الناصرة
|42,070
|Tell Hajjar (10,343), Al-Kallasah (9,721), Al-Meshirfah (8,074), Al-Qusour (7,672), Al-Beitra (2,423), Al-Mashtal (2,306), Al-Maaishiyah (1,531)
|-
|Al-Nashwa
|النشوة
|25,340
|Al-Rasafah (12,618), Al-Masaken (4,968), Al-Khabour (3,805), Al-Liliyah (2,977), Villas / Al-Villat (972)
|}

==Sports==
[[File:Al-Jazeera fans, al-Hasakah stadium, Syria.jpg|thumb|Bassel al-Assad Stadium]]
Al-Jazeera SC Hasakah is the largest football club in the city and plays at Bassel al-Assad Stadium.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:St George cathedral - Hassaké, Syria - كاتدرائية مار جرجس.jpg|Saint George Syriac Orthodox Cathedral
File:Chaldean Catholic Church, Al-Hasakah, Syria.jpg|Chaldean Catholic Church
File:Tal hajar Quarter in AL-Hasakah.JPG|Tell Hajjar neighborhood
</gallery>

== Notable people ==
* Hammouda Sabbagh, politician
* Ignatius Joseph III Yonan;  the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch

==See also==
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Al Hasakah-Nisibis

== Notes ==
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==References==

=== Citations ===
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Works cited ==
* {{cite book |last=Vanly |first=Ismet Chériff |chapter= The Kurds in Syria and Lebanon |editor1= Philip G. Kreyenbroek |editor2= Stefan Sperl|title= The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JZ6JAgAAQBAJ&q=hasaka |date= 1992 |publisher= [[Company:Routledge|Routledge]] |location= New York City, London |pages=116 |isbn= 978-0-415-96691-7 }}


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