Qal’at Ja’bar
Qal'at Ja'bar is a castle on the left bank of Euphrates Lake in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. Its site, formerly a prominent hill-top overlooking the Euphrates Valley, is now an island in Lake Assad that can only be reached by an artificial causeway.Photo: Eleman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 367 metres
- Description: castle in Syria
- Also known as: “Caber Kalesi”, “Qal‘at Jābir”, “Qal`at Jabir”, “Qalaat Jâber”, and “قلعة جعبر”
Qal’at Ja’bar
- Categories: castle and landform
- Location: Raqqa Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qal’at Ja’bar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة جعبر”
- Armenian: “Ջաբեր ամրոց”
- Azerbaijani: “Caber qalası”
- Bulgarian: “Джабар”
- Chinese: “賈比爾城堡”
- Czech: “Kalat Džaabar”
- Dutch: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
- French: “Caber Kalesi”
- French: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
- German: “Burg Jabar”
- German: “Burg Jaber”
- German: “Dscha’Bar”
- German: “Qal’At Ja’Bar”
- German: “Qalat Dschabar”
- German: “Qalʿat Dschaʿbar”
- Indonesian: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
- Italian: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
- Japanese: “ジャアバル城”
- Japanese: “ジャベル・カレスィ”
- Macedonian: “Kабер”
- Macedonian: “Кабер”
- Persian: “قلعه جعبر”
- Polish: “Kalat Dżabir”
- Polish: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
- Russian: “Джабер”
- Spanish: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
- Turkish: “Caber Kalesi”
- Urdu: “قلعہ جعبر”
- Uzbek: “Jaber qalʻasi”
- Vietnamese: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
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