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Afrin ((アラビア語:عفرين) / ALA-LC: ''ʿAfrīn'' or ''ʿIfrīn''; (クルド語:Efrîn)) is a district as well as a town in northern Syria. As a district (mantiqah) of the Syrian Arab Republic, it is part of the Aleppo Governorate. However, since 2012, the Syrian government has lost control of the district, and as the capital of Afrin Canton ((クルド語:''Kantona Efrînê'')) it is now part of the ''de facto'' autonomous region of Rojava. The total population of the district as of 2004 was recorded at 172,095 people, of whom 36,562 lived in the town of Afrin itself. The town and district are named for the Afrin River. The town of Afrin is located next to a bridge of the Aleppo road. ==History== About 8 km south of the town of Afrin, there are the remains of a Neo-Hittite (Iron Age) settlement known as Tell Ain Dara. The Afrin valley was part of Roman Syria, until the Muslim conquest in 637.〔Andrew Palmer, ''The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles'' (1993), (p. 209, fn. 525 ).〕 The Afrin river was known as ''Oinoparas'' in the Seleucid era, in the Roman era the name became ''Ufrenus'', whence the Arab vernacular ''ʿAfrīn, ʿIfrīn'', adopted as Kurdish ''Efrîn''. The area was briefly conquered by the Principality of Antioch, but again came under Muslim rule in 1260 following the Mongol invasions. In the Ottoman period, the area was part of the Kilis Province. Although it is not contiguous with the main area of Kurdish settlement, the Afrin valley seems to have seen Kurdish settlement by at least the 18th century, as by that time it is referred to as the ''Sancak of the Kurds'' in Ottoman documents. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Afrin, Syria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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