Shahba
Shahba is a city located 87 km south of Damascus in the Jabal al-Druze in Suwayda Governorate of Syria, but formerly in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.- Town with about 13,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,080 metres (3,550 feet)
- Description: Historical City in Syria
- Also known as“Philippopolis in Arabia”“Phillipopolis”“Philppopolis”“Shaba”“Shahaba”“Shahbah”“فيليبوبوليس”
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Latitude
32.85306° or 32° 51′ 11″ north
Longitude
36.62933° or 36° 37′ 46″ east
Open location code
8G4RVJ3H+6P
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Welsh—“Shahba” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Φιλιππόπολις”
- Arabic: “شهبا”
- Arabic: “فيليبوبولس”
- Armenian: “Շահբա”
- Breton: “Shabaa”
- Breton: “Shahba”
- Bulgarian: “Шахба”
- Catalan: “Chahba”
- Catalan: “Shahba”
- Catalan: “Shuhba”
- Catalan: “Xahba”
- Cebuano: “Shahbā”
- Chinese: “舍赫巴”
- Danish: “Shahba”
- Dutch: “Shahba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شهبا”
- French: “Chahba”
- French: “Shahba”
- Georgian: “შაჰბა”
- German: “Schahba”
- Greek: “Σάχμπα”
- Hebrew: “שאבה”
- Hebrew: “שהבא”
- Hungarian: “Sahba”
- Italian: “Shahba”
- Japanese: “シャハバ”
- Japanese: “シャフバー”
- Japanese: “シャヘバ”
- Korean: “샤흐바”
- Kurdish: “Şehba”
- Latin: “Philippopolis”
- Lithuanian: “Šahba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shahba”
- Persian: “شهبا”
- Persian: “فیلیپوپولیس”
- Polish: “Szahba”
- Romanian: “Shahba”
- Russian: “Шахба”
- Scots: “Shahba”
- Serbian: “Шахба”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šahba”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shahba”
- Spanish: “Philippopolis”
- Spanish: “Shahba”
- Swedish: “Shahbā”
- Turkish: “Shahba”
- Ukrainian: “Шагба”
- Ukrainian: “Шахба”
- Urdu: “شہبا”
- Welsh: “Shahba”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Roman Baths and Roman theater of Philippopolis.
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