Zakiyah
Zakyah is a Syrian town located in Markaz Rif Dimashq, Rif Dimashq. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Zakiyah had a population of 18,553 in the 2004 census.Photo: عبيدة طعمة, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 18,600 residents
- Description: town in Rif Dimashq, Syria
- Also known as: “Zakieh”, “Zākīyah”, “Zakîyé”, and “Zakyé”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Kiswah and Nahr Barbar.
Al-Kiswah
Town
Photo: عبدالرحمن الصياد-أبوعابد, Public domain.
Al-Kiswah is a city in the Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. It is located approximately 13 kilometres south of Damascus. It was the location of the 1303 Battle of Marj al-Saffar, and the childhood home of Adnan Awad. Al-Kiswah is situated 8 km east of Zakiyah.
Nahr Barbar
Locality
Pharpar is a biblical river in Syria. It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the Book of Kings, now generally identified with the Nahr al-Awaj, also called Awaj, although if the reference to Damascus is limited to the city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be the modern Taura. Nahr Barbar is situated 9 km north of Zakiyah.
Zakiyah
- Categories: town and populated place in Syria
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Zakiyah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زاكية”
- Arabic: “مدينة زاكية”
- Asturian: “Zakiyah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زاكيه”
- Persian: “زاکیه”
- Polish: “Zakijja”
- Vietnamese: “Zakiyah”
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