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Manbij
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Manbij () is a city in the northeast of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, west of the Euphrates. The 2004 census gives its population as nearly 100,000. The population of Manbij is largely Arab, with Kurdish, Turkmen, Circassian, and Chechen minorities. Many of its residents practice Naqshbandi Sufism.
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Place details
- Locality
- منبج
- Region
- محافظة حلب
- Country
- سوريا
- Population
- 99,497
- Timezone
- Asia/Damascus
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Key facts
- Settlement.native_name
- منبج
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- A street view of manbij city - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Manbij in 2005
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Syria
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Manbij
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Syria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Aleppo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Manbij
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Manbij
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- منبج
- Population
- 74575
- Elevation
- 465
- Image
- A street view of manbij city - panoramio.jpg
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- Commons category
- Manbij
- P12749
- 'Are'are
- native label
- منبج
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Travel guide
Understand
The city was annexed by the Assyrians in 856 BC and later prospered under the rule of the Seleucids who made it the chief station on their main road between Antioch and Seleucia on the Tigris. In the third century, the city was one of the great cities of Roman Syria until it fell into ruins after the collapse of the Roman Empire. The Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid restored Manbij at the end of the 8th century.
Manbij have been occupied by several different factions during the Syrian civil war. On December 9, 2024 it came under the control of the Syrian transitional government.
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Cult of Atargatis
- History
- Antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Modern era
- Syrian civil war
- Ecclesiastical history
- Geography
- Climate
- Transportation
- Notable person
- Notes
- References
- External links
Manbij () is a city in the northeast of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, west of the Euphrates. The 2004 census gives its population as nearly 100,000. The population of Manbij is largely Arab, with Kurdish, Turkmen, Circassian, and Chechen minorities. Many of its residents practice Naqshbandi Sufism.
During the Syrian civil war, the city was first captured by rebels in 2012, overrun by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014 and finally captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2016, bringing it into the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). From 2018 to 2024, after an agreement with the SDF, the Syrian Arab Army had been deployed on the city's periphery as a buffer between the Turkish occupation of Northern Syria and the AANES. On December 9, 2024, it was reported that the city came under the control of the Syrian caretaker government after a deal was reached between the U.S. and Turkey to allow the safe exit of SDF fighters. The pro-Turkish forces' control over the area did not end until the SIG was incorporated into the Syrian transitional government at the end of January 2025.
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