Azaz

Azaz أَعْزَاز
City
Azaz Location in Syria
Coordinates: 36°35′10″N 37°02′41″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
District	Azaz
Subdistrict	Azaz
Elevation	560 m (1,840 ft)
Population  (2004)
• Total	31,623
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)

Azaz is the administrative center of Nahiya Azaz and the Azaz District.

Azaz (Arabic: أَعْزَاز, romanized: ʾAʿzāz) is a city in northwest Syria, roughly 20 miles (32 kilometres) north-northwest of Aleppo. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Azaz had a population of 31,623 at the 2004 census. As of 2015, its inhabitants were almost entirely Sunni Muslims, mostly Arabs but also some Turkmen.

It is historically significant as the site of the Battle of Azaz between the Crusader States and the Seljuk Turks on June 11, 1125. It is close to a Syria–Turkey border crossing, which enters Turkey at Öncüpınar, south of the city of Kilis. During the Syrian civil war, Azaz was included from 2016 in the Turkish occupation zones, becoming the capital of the opposition's Syrian Interim Government.