Meidan Ekbis (Arabic: ميدان اكبس) or Maydan Ikbis or Midan Akbas, is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Afrin District of Aleppo Governorate, located north of Aleppo. Nearby localities include Afrin and Rajo to the south. The town lies on the Syria–Turkey border and is a stop on the main railroad crossing into Turkey on the Baghdad Railway and Istanbul-Aleppo-Damascus line. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Meidan Ekbis had a population of 1,302 in the 2004 census.[1] By late July 2013, People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters controlled the town.[2] On February 25, 2018, the village came under the control of the Syrian National Army.[3]

In Pop Culture

In Khaled Khalifa's No Knives in the Kitchens of This City (2013), Meidan Ekibs is mentioned as the hometown of the main family, which they left to move to Aleppo, Syria.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012-12-20 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ افتتاح مركز لتعليم اللغة الكردية في ميدان أكبس Archived August 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Hawar News, 25 July 2013 (in Arabic)
  3. ^ "A village and 3 hills in Afrin area separate the Turkish Forces from areas of "Euphrates Shield" Operation Forces in the countryside of Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights". The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights. 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  4. ^ Khalīfah, Khālid; خليفة، خالد، (2016). No knives in the kitchens of this city. Leri Price. Cairo, Egypt. ISBN 978-977-416-781-2. OCLC 941875066.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)