Qara
Qara or Kara is a city in the An-Nabek District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. It is located between the Qalamoun Mountains and the Eastern Lebanon mountains range, 95 kilometres north of the capital Damascus on the road to the city of Homs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 12,500 residents
- Description: place in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
- Also known as: “Qārā”, “Qara, Syria”, “Qarah”, and “Qarra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monastery of St. James the Mutilated.
Monastery of St. James the Mutilated
Monastery
The Monastery of St. James the Mutilated is a 6th-century Melkite Greek Catholic monastery in Qara, Syria. It is located 97 km north of Damascus and 15 km east of Al-Nabek. The monastery is dedicated to Saint James the Mutilated. Monastery of St. James the Mutilated is situated 2½ km northwest of Qara.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deir Atiyah.
Deir Atiyah
Town
Photo: Wisal Ahdab, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deir Atiyah or Dayr Atiyah is a town in Syria, located between the Qalamoun Mountains and the Eastern Lebanon Mountains Series, 88 kilometres north of the capital Damascus and on the road to the city of Homs. Deir Atiyah is situated 7 km south of Qara.
Qara
- Categories: city, human settlement, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.15511° or 34° 9′ 18″ northLongitude
36.74579° or 36° 44′ 45″ eastPopulation
12,500Elevation
1,287 metres (4,222 feet)Open location code
8G6R5P4W+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 573522020OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
166111Wikidata ID
Q3412425
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قارة”
- Arabic: “قارّة”
- Arabic: “قاره”
- Arabic: “مدينة قارة”
- Asturian: “Qarah”
- Catalan: “Qarah”
- Cebuano: “Qārah”
- Dutch: “Qarah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قارة”
- French: “Qara”
- French: “Qârra”
- German: “Karra”
- Hebrew: “קאררה”
- Hebrew: “קרע”
- Irish: “Qarah”
- Japanese: “カーラ”
- Korean: “카라”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qarah i Syria”
- Persian: “قارة”
- Persian: “قاره”
- Polish: “Kara”
- Russian: “Какрра”
- Russian: “Кара”
- Scots: “Qarah, Sirie”
- Scots: “Qarah”
- Swedish: “Qara, Rif Dimashq”
- Swedish: “Qara”
- Vietnamese: “Qara, Syria”
- Vietnamese: “Qara”
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