Tunaynir

Tunanir stands on the eastern bank of the Khabur, southeast of the meeting of that river with the Jaghjagh. In the Middle Ages its inhabitants included Arabic-speaking Muslims and Syriac-speaking Christians. A mud-brick church served the community for centuries, with painted plaster and lamps hanging above its floor. Nearby stood a monastery first built in late antiquity and repeatedly repaired and occupied into the fifteenth century, preserving a Christian presence beside the river through successive Islamic dynasties.