Qalamoun Mountains
The Qalamoun Mountains are the northeastern portion of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, and they are northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus. They run from Barada River Valley in the southwest to the city of Hisyah in the northeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,672 metres
- Description: mountain in Syria
- Also known as: “Jabal Qalamun” and “Kalamoun”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rankous and Jib’adin.
Rankous
Town
Rankous or Rankus is a Syrian town and summer resort in the province's Damascus countryside located in Mount Qalamoun in Syria, 45 km from Damascus, with a total area of 22.277 km ², extends between 1650 and 2150 m. Rankous is situated 6 km southwest of Qalamoun Mountains.
Jib’adin
Village
Jubb'adin is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located northeast of Damascus in the Qalamoun Mountains. Jib’adin is situated 8 km east of Qalamoun Mountains.
Tfail
Village
Tfail is a village in eastern Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. It is one of the highest villages in Lebanon. It has a population of about 3,000 Sunni residents and is the most remote village in Lebanon, lying at the tip of a finger of territory that juts into Syria. Tfail is situated 8 km northwest of Qalamoun Mountains.
Qalamoun Mountains
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Qalamoun Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال القلمون”
- Arabic: “جبل القلمون”
- Cebuano: “Jabal Qalamūn”
- Central Kurdish: “چیاکانی قەلەموون”
- Dutch: “Qalamoun Mountains”
- French: “Al-Qalamoun”
- French: “Qalamoun”
- Hebrew: “הרי קלמון”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qalamunfjella”
- Russian: “Каламун”
- Spanish: “Montañas de Calamún”
- Spanish: “Montañas de Qalamun”
- Swedish: “Jabal Qalamūn”
- Swedish: “Qalamoun”
- Venetian: “Monti de Qalamun”
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