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.Photo: Damien Perrotin, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 13,700 residents
- Description: Historical City in Syria
- Also known as: “Philippopolis in Arabia”, “Phillipopolis”, “Philppopolis”, “Shaba”, “Shahaba”, “Shahbā’”, “Shahbah”, and “فيليبوبوليس”
Shahba
- Categories: archaeological site, city or town, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Suwayda Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.85306° or 32° 51′ 11″ northLongitude
36.62933° or 36° 37′ 46″ eastPopulation
13,700Elevation
1,085 metres (3,560 feet)Open location code
8G4RVJ3H+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 567054683OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
164626Wikidata ID
Q926336
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Satellite Map
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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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