Soganekê or Al-Basliya (, ) and formerly Soganê is a Kurdish village, part of Afrin Subdistrict, Afrin District, Aleppo Governorate, in northwestern Syria. The village had a population of 311 according to the 2004 census,UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Syrian Population Localities, General Population Census 2004. Accessed 22 September 2013 and 935 according to civil registry records at the end of 2005. Its inhabitants were Yazidis until the early 20th century.
Name The village's name is derived from the Soganê Yazidi Kurdish tribe, which belongs to the Qatani group within the Yazidi hierarchical order, according to Muhammad Abdo Ali and Khalil Jundi.
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