| Al-Qahtaniyah | |
| Native Name: | ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Other Name: | Kurdish: Tirbespî Syriac: <big>ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ</big> |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Syria |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Al-Qahtaniyah in Syria |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | al-Hasakah |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Qamishli |
| Subdivision Type3: | Subdistrict |
| Subdivision Name3: | al-Qahtaniyah |
| Parts Type: | Control |
| Parts Style: | para |
| P1: | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Population: | 16946 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population As Of: | 2004 |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Geocode: | C4751 |
Al-Qahtaniyah (Arabic: ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة|al-Qaḥṭānīyah; Kurdish: Tirbespî; Syriac: ܩܒܪ̈ܐ ܚܘܪ̈ܐ|Qabre Ḥewore), formerly Qubur al-Bid, is a town in northeastern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the administrative center of al-Qahtaniyah Subdistrict, which consists of 103 localities. Historically an Assyrian city,[1] at the 2004 census, it had a population of 16,946. The Female Protection Forces of the Land Between Two Rivers trained in this city.
Al-Qahtaniyah was officially called Qbor el-Bid until 1962. Its old name was derived from the Arabic words "Qbor" ("graves") and "el-Bid" ("white") – i.e. "white graves."
The majority of the towns inhabitants are Kurds, followed by a large number of Assyrians-Arameans.
In 1927, the Kurdish tribal chief Haco Agha of the influential Haverkan tribe immigrated from Turkey together with more than 600 families and settled in the town.[2] On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 40 Kurdish civilians were killed, residents of Al-Qahtaniyah who protested the killings were shot at and injured by Syrian forces.[3]
As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate.
In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the town.[4]