Sahnaya
Sahnaya is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus in the western Ghouta. Nearby localities include Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, Darayya, Muadamiyat al-Sham, Jdeidat Artouz, Khan Danun and Al-Kiswah.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 14,000 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Şaḩnāyā”
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 7 km south of Sahnaya.
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 west of Sahnaya.
Al Mazzeh
Town
Photo: Wesamt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mezzeh is a municipality in Damascus, Syria, due west of Kafr Sousa. It lies to the southwest of central Damascus, along the Mazzeh highway. It started gaining importance when the French constructed Mezzeh Air Base, which was the main airport in Damascus until Damascus International Airport opened. Al Mazzeh is situated 9 km north of Sahnaya.
Sahnaya
- Categories: village, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.42261° or 33° 25′ 21″ northLongitude
36.22597° or 36° 13′ 34″ eastPopulation
14,000Elevation
705 metres (2,313 feet)Open location code
8G5RC6FG+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 567045913OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
164994Wikidata ID
Q7399701
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sahnaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صحنايا”
- Bulgarian: “Сахнаия”
- Catalan: “Sahnaya”
- Cebuano: “Sahnaiya”
- Dutch: “Sahnaya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحنايا”
- Esperanto: “Sahnaja”
- French: “Sahnaia”
- German: “Sahnaja”
- Hebrew: “סחנאיא”
- Hebrew: “סחנאיה”
- Japanese: “サフナーヤ”
- Korean: “사흐나야”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sahnaya”
- Persian: “صحنایا”
- Polish: “Sahnaja”
- Russian: “Сахная”
- Urdu: “سہنایا”
- Vietnamese: “Sahnaya”
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