Rajo, Syria

Government

Rajo or Radjou or Raju ( Kurdish: Reco [ rəɟo ]; Arab راجو Rādschū, DMG Rāǧū ) is the name of a small town in the district of Afrin in Aleppo Governorate in northwestern Syria.

Rajo is located about 20 kilometers northwest of Afrin on the plateau Baylan in the region Kurd Dagh. The town has 4000 inhabitants and is the seat of the homonymous municipality with about 65 villages and farms. The community has about 67,000 Rajo inhabitants and an area of 352 km ².

The name Rajo goes back to the same Kurdish family of the tribe ( Eşiret ) Shaykh (k ) to. Rajo is located since 1912 in the line of the Baghdad Railway.