Masyaf District
Masyaf District is a district administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 Census it had a population of 169,341. Its administrative centre is the city of Masyaf.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of Syria with 169,000 residents
- Description: district of Hama, Syria
- Also known as: “Massiâf”, “Masyaf”, “Masyaf, Hama”, “Masyaf, Syria”, “Minţaqat Maşyāf”, “Misiaf”, and “Qaḑā’ Maşyāf”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Misyaf Castle.
Misyaf Castle
Castle
Photo: Mewes, Public domain.
Masyaf Castle is a medieval structure in the town of Masyaf in Hama Governorate, Syria, situated in the Orontes Valley, approximately 40 kilometres to the west of Hama. Misyaf Castle is situated 4 km south of Masyaf District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Masyaf.
Masyaf
Town
Photo: Alen Ištoković, CC BY 3.0.
Masyaf is a city in northwestern Syria. It is the center of the Masyaf District in the Hama Governorate. As of 2004, Masyaf had a religiously diverse population of approximately 22,000 Ismailis, Alawites and Christians. Masyaf is situated 4½ km south of Masyaf District.
Masyaf District
- Location: Hama Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Masyaf District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مصياف”
- Arabic: “منطقة مصياف”
- Armenian: “Մասյաֆի գավառ”
- Cebuano: “Masyaf District”
- Chinese: “Masyaf Koān”
- Chinese: “邁斯亞夫區”
- Croatian: “Masyaf (okrug)”
- Croatian: “Masyaf”
- Dutch: “Masyaf”
- French: “District de Masyaf”
- Georgian: “მასიაფის მინტაკა”
- Hausa: “Gundumar Masyaf”
- Hausa: “Masyaf”
- Italian: “Distretto di Masyaf”
- Japanese: “マスヤーフ郡”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Masyaf Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masyaf-distriktet”
- Persian: “شهرستان مصیاف”
- Persian: “منطقه مصیاف”
- Polish: “Masjaf”
- Russian: “Мантык Масьяф”
- Russian: “Масьяф”
- Scots: “Masyaf Destrict”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Masyaf”
- Swedish: “Masyaf District”
- Ukrainian: “Масьяф (район)”
- Ukrainian: “Масьяф”
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