Qamishli ܩܡܫܠܝ (or Al Qamishli or Kamishli, sometimes transcribed with accents) is a city in northeast Syria on the border with Iraq (Ancient Assyria). It has a populartion of about 200,000. It is part of the Al Hasakah province and the centre of an administrative district. The city was founded by Christian Assyrians, as a result of the horrible brutal genocide that happened them in the years 1914-1922 in what is now Turkey. Today there lives Assyrians, Arabs, Kurds and Armenians side by side in the city.
City in northeastern Syria with 200,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), on the Jaghjagha River, a tributary to the Khabur river, next to the Turkish border, facing the Turkish town of Nusaybin.
Qamishli is seat an Armenian Catholic, as well as a Syrian Catholic archbishopric.
Qamishli has one of the most mixed populations in Syria, with large groups of Armenians, Assyrian Christians and Kurds, in addition to Sunni Muslims, Syriac-speaking Christians and a small community of Jews.
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