Jarabulus Tahtani

Jarabulus Tahtani جرابلس تحتاني
Village
Jarabulus Tahtani Location of Jarabulus Tahtani in Syria
Coordinates: 36°48′01″N 38°01′40″E / 36.8003°N 38.0278°E / 36.8003; 38.0278
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
District	Jarabulus
Subdistrict	Jarabulus
Control	Turkey Syrian Interim Government
Elevation	352 m (1,155 ft)
Population  (2004)[1]	2,170
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Geocode	C2226

Jarabulus Tahtani (Arabic: جرابلس تحتاني, romanized: Jarābulus Taḩtānī, lit. 'Lower Jarabulus') is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria. Situated in the Jarabulus Plain's wetlands, on the western banks of river Euphrates, the village is located some 2 km (1.2 mi) to the southeast of Jarabulus, and about 3 km (1.9 mi) south of the border with the Turkish province of Gaziantep.

With 2,170 inhabitants, as per the 2004 census, is the second largest village of Nahiya Jarabulus within Jarabulus District.^[1] The bridge connecting Jarabulus Tahtani with Shuyukh Fawqani was severely damaged in March 2015.

On 6 March 2015, following the Kurdish retaking of Kobanî, ISIL blew up the western side of al-Nasiriyyah Bridge,^[2] a modern road bridge that had previously been damaged by artillery on 10 February 2014. Jarabulus Tahtani was captured on 24 August 2016 by Turkish-backed FSA militias on the first day of Operation Euphrates Shield.

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