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Żabbar

Żabbar, also known as Città Hompesch, is a city in the Port Region of . It is the seventh largest city in the country, with an estimated population of 15,648 as of January 2021.
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  • Type: Town with 15,400 residents
  • Description: city in Malta
  • Also known as: “Casal Zabbar”, “Citta Hompesch”, “Città Hompesch”, “Haz-Zabbar”, “Haż-Żabbar”, “Ħaż-Żabbar”, and “Zabbar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and Ħal Tarxien Temples.

Museum
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The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase in Maltese prehistory, located in , . It is often simply referred to as the Hypogeum, literally meaning "underground" in Greek.

Protected area
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The Ħal Tarxien Prehistoric Complex is an archaeological complex in , within the Port region of . They date to approximately 3400 BC. The site was accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 along with the other Megalithic temples on the island of Malta.

Castle
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is a bastioned fort in , , located at the centre of the . It was originally built in the medieval period as a castle called the Castrum Maris.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cottonera and Valletta.

Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a group of three adjacent cities in with a population of about 11,000 : Cospicua, Vittoriosa and Senglea. They are collectively also known as the Three Cities.

Photo: Thyes, Public domain.
or Il-Belt is the capital of . Historically built as harbour city to first capital, preserves much of its 16th-century architectural heritage built under the Hospitallers.

Photo: Felix Koenig, CC BY 3.0.
is a small, traditional fishing village in the of . It has a harbour, and is a tourist attraction known for its views, fishing and history.

Żabbar

Latitude
35.8753° or 35° 52′ 31″ north
Longitude
14.5375° or 14° 32′ 15″ east
Population
15,400
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT ZBR
Open location code
8F7PVGGP+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 129953030
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2562266
Wiki­data ID
Q39518
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Żabbar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الصبار”
  • Arabic: “جبار”
  • Armenian: “Զաբար”
  • Basque: “Żabbar”
  • Belarusian: “Забар”
  • Bengali: “জাব্বার”
  • Catalan: “Żabbar”
  • Cebuano: “Ħaż-Żabbar”
  • Central Kurdish: “زابار”
  • Chechen: “Заббар”
  • Chinese: “扎巴尔”
  • Chinese: “扎巴爾”
  • Czech: “Żabbar”
  • Danish: “Żabbar”
  • Dutch: “Zabbar”
  • Dutch: “Żabbar”
  • Esperanto: “Żabbar”
  • Finnish: “Żabbar”
  • French: “Citta Hompesch”
  • French: “Citta‘ Hompesch”
  • French: “Hal-Zabbar”
  • French: “Ħaż-Żabbar”
  • French: “Zabbar”
  • French: “Żabbar”
  • German: “MT-64”
  • German: “Zabbar”
  • German: “Żabbar”
  • Greek: “Ζαμπάρ”
  • Gujarati: “ઝબ્બાર”
  • Hindi: “ज़ब्बार”
  • Hungarian: “Żabbar”
  • Indonesian: “Żabbar”
  • Italian: “Zabbar”
  • Italian: “Zabbaria”
  • Japanese: “ザッパール”
  • Kannada: “ಝಬ್ಬರ್”
  • Korean: “자바르”
  • Latin: “Żabbar”
  • Latvian: “Zabara”
  • Lithuanian: “Zabaras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zabbar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Żabbar”
  • Macedonian: “Забар”
  • Malay: “Zabbar”
  • Maltese: “Ħaż-Żabbar”
  • Marathi: “आबबर”
  • Mingrelian: “ზაბარი”
  • Northern Sami: “Żabbar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Żabbar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ħaż-Żabbar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zabbar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Żabbar”
  • Norwegian: “Żabbar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Żabbar”
  • Persian: “زابار”
  • Polish: “Zabbar”
  • Polish: “Żabbar”
  • Portuguese: “Żabbar”
  • Pushto: “زابار”
  • Russian: “Заббар”
  • Serbian: “Città Hompesch”
  • Serbian: “Ħaż-Żabbar”
  • Serbian: “Забар”
  • Sicilian: “Zabbar”
  • Sicilian: “Żabbar”
  • Sinhala: “සබ්බාර්”
  • Slovak: “Żabbar”
  • Spanish: “Zabbar”
  • Spanish: “Żabbar”
  • Swedish: “Ħaż-Żabbar”
  • Swedish: “Żabbar”
  • Tamil: “சாப்பார்”
  • Telugu: “జబ్బార్”
  • Thai: “ฮัซซับบาร์”
  • Turkish: “Zabbar”
  • Ukrainian: “Заббар”
  • Urdu: “زابار”
  • Vietnamese: “Zabbar”
  • Volapük: “Żabbar”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Żabbar”. Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY-SA 4.0.