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Answer» What is Kameshli mean? Qamishli (Arabic: ٱلْقَامِشْلِي, romanized: Al-Qāmišlī, Kurdish: Qamişlo ,قامشلۆ, Classical Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܙܠܝ̈ܢ, romanized: Bēṯ Zālīn, lit. 'House of Reeds' or Syriac: ܩܡܫܠܐ, romanized: Qamishlo) is a city in northeastern Syria on the Syria–Turkey border, adjoining the city of Nusaybin in Turkey. According to the 2004 census, Qamishli had a population of 184,231. Qamishli is 680 kilometres (420 mi) northeast of Damascus. The city is the administrative capital of the Qamishli District of Al-Hasakah Governorate, and the administrative center of Qamishli Subdistrict, consisting of 92 localities with a combined population of 232,095 in 2004. Qamishli was the de facto capital of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, until it was moved to Ayn Issa. reference
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