Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi
Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi is a Syrian desert castle or qasr located 80 km south-west of Palmyra on the Damascus road. The castle is a twin palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, built by the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 727 CE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Ruin
- Description: villa in Syria
- Also known as: “Kasr el Her”, “Qaşr al Ḩāyir”, “Qasr al Hayr”, “Qaşr al Ḩayr”, “Qaşr al Ḩayr al Gharbī”, “Qaşr al Ḩīr”, and “Qasr el Haïr”
Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi
- Categories: castle, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قصر الحير الغربي”
- Arabic: “قصر الحير”
- Azerbaijani: “Qəsr əl-Heyr əl-Qərbi”
- Bengali: “কাসর আল-হায়র আল-গারবি”
- Catalan: “Kasr al Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Dutch: “Qasr al-Chair al-Garbi”
- French: “Qasr el-Heir el-Gharbi”
- Ga: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- German: “Qasr al Hayr al Gharbi”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Hausa: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Hebrew: “קסר אל-חייר אל-ע’רבי”
- Indonesian: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Italian: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Japanese: “アル＝ハイル・アル＝ガルビ城”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Norwegian: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Persian: “قصر الحیر غربی”
- Portuguese: “Palácio do Parque de Caça Ocidental”
- Portuguese: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Russian: “Каср аль-Хейр аль-Гарби”
- Spanish: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Swedish: “Qasr al-Hayrach-Gharbi”
- Turkish: “Kasrü’l-Hayr”
- Turkish: “Kasrü’l-hayri’l-garbî”
- Twi: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
- Ukrainian: “Каср аль-Хейр аль-Гарбі”
- Urdu: “قصر الحیر الغربی”
- Uzbek: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gʻarbiy”
- Uzbek: “Qasr al-Xayr al-GʻARBI”
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