مزرعة دير الزور
The place
مزرعة دير الزور ("Deir ez-Zor Farm") in Aleppo Governorate, Al-Bab/A'zaz sector (northern Syria, Syrian plateau, Syria), at 492 m elevation, on the northern Syrian plain. New Syria cluster that appeared in batch 352. A rural farm (the name likely references the city of Deir ez-Zor on the Euphrates, site of the 1915-16 Armenian massacres, a genocide with 200,000 deportees, bodies along the desert road, burned bodies, wells at Ras al-Ain), an area of Mediterranean semi-arid steppe on the Syrian plateau plus Aleppo (Syria's 2nd city, 4.5 M inhabitants, Souq al-Madina, UNESCO 1986, looted and bombed during the 2011-2020 civil war, 500,000 dead, 5.6 M externally and 6.7 M internally displaced), and Kurdish heritage (Rojava, autonomous Syrian confederation, 3 M Kurds, 15% of Syria's population, Kurmanji dialect, plus Assyrians/Christians of Syria, 500,000 pre-war, 200,000 remaining after the 2014 exodus from ISIS in the Nineveh plain, general evacuation).
The setting
Aleppo, Al-Bab/A'zaz, northern Syria, Syrian plateau, 492 m plain, new cluster batch 352, rural farm, Deir ez-Zor, 1915-16 Armenian massacres, genocide, 200,000 deportees, bodies at Ras al-Ain, Mediterranean semi-arid steppe plus Aleppo Syria's 2nd city 4.5 M, Souq al-Madina UNESCO 1986, 2011-2020 civil war 500,000 dead, 5.6 M external + 6.7 M internal displaced, Kurds, Rojava, 3 M, 15%, Kurmanji, plus Assyrians 500,000 pre-war, 200,000 after 2014 exodus, ISIS, Nineveh.
