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"The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), commonly known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northern Syria. It consists of three self-governing regions:[6] Afrin Region, Jazira Region, and Euphrates Region.[7] The region gained its de facto autonomy in 2012[8] as part of the ongoing Rojava conflict and the wider Syrian Civil War.
Northern Syria is polyethnic and home to sizeable ethnic Kurdish, Arab, Syriac-Assyrian, and Turkmen populations; with smaller communities of ethnic Armenians, Circassians, and Chechens.[9][10] Parts of northeastern Syria are regarded by Kurdish nationalists as Western Kurdistan (Kurdish: Rojavayê Kurdistanê),[11] one of the four parts of Greater Kurdistan.[12] Much of Northern Syria is also considered by Syriac-Assyrians as Gozarto (meaning Upper Mesopotamia), part of the historical Syriac-Assyrian homeland.
The supporters of the region argue that it is an officially secular polity[13][14] based on the democratic confederalist principles of democratic socialism, gender equality, and sustainability, and that the diversity of Northern Syria is mirrored in its constitution, society, and politics.[15][3][16][6][17]
While entertaining some foreign relations, the regions within the DFNS are not officially recognized as autonomous by the government of Syria or any international state or organization.[18][19] For their part, supporters of its constitution consider their system a model for a federalized Syria as a whole, rather than independence.[20]"