Bir al-Helou
town in al-Hasakah, Syria
Bir al-Helou (Arabic: بِئْر الْحِلُو, romanized: Biʾr al-Ḥilū) is a town in central al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is administrative center of the Nahiya Bir al-Helou al-Wardiya consisting of 72 municipalities.
At the 2004 census, Bir al-Helou had a population of 3,718.
“Bir al-Helou” enters the record as town in al-Hasakah, Syria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what al-Helou, town and al-Hasakah can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Bir al-Helou” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, al-Helou, town and al-Hasakah provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19903531. Authority coordinates are 36.686, 41.049. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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