The "Arab Belt": the Story of the Largest Demographic ...
· The "Arab Belt" is a term describing the confision process by the Syrian government of agricultural lands belonging to Kurds and Aghas (chieftains or village heads who were also landowners) in the province of Hasakah, and the distribution of the lands to Arabs arriving from the provinces of Aleppo and Raqqa to be settled in the Jazira region of northeast .