| 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 (ar|ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة|al-Qaḥṭānīyah; ku|Tirbespî; syr|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.
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]