Masyaf
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alen Ištoković, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 22,500 residents
- Description: Syrian city
- Also known as: “‘Omrānīye”, “‘Umraniya”, “Imranie”, “Massiâf”, “Maşşīyaf”, “Masyāb”, “Masyad”, “Misiaf”, and “Omranié”
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.
Masyaf
- Categories: city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Hama Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.06464° or 35° 3′ 53″ northLongitude
36.3408° or 36° 20′ 27″ eastPopulation
22,500Elevation
502 metres (1,647 feet)Open location code
8G7R387R+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 567200726OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
167046Wikidata ID
Q825818
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Masyaf” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مصياف”
- Armenian: “Մասյաֆ”
- Asturian: “Masyaf”
- Azerbaijani: “Masiaf”
- Azerbaijani: “Masiyaf”
- Azerbaijani: “Masyaf”
- Azerbaijani: “Məsyaf”
- Belarusian: “Масьяф”
- Bulgarian: “Масяф”
- Catalan: “Masyad”
- Catalan: “Masyaf”
- Cebuano: “Maşyāf”
- Central Kurdish: “مەسیاف”
- Chinese: “迈斯亚夫”
- Chinese: “邁斯亞夫”
- Chinese: “马斯亚夫”
- Chinese: “马西亚夫”
- Czech: “Masjaf”
- Czech: “Masyaf”
- Dutch: “Masyaf”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مصياف”
- Finnish: “Masyaf”
- Finnish: “مصياف”
- French: “Masiaf”
- French: “Massiaf”
- French: “Massyaf”
- French: “Masyad,”
- French: “Masyad”
- French: “Masyaf”
- Georgian: “მასიაფი”
- German: “Masjaf”
- German: “Maṣyād”
- German: “Masyaf”
- German: “Maṣyāf”
- German: “Maṣyāth”
- Hausa: “Masyad”
- Hausa: “Masyaf”
- Hebrew: “מסיאף”
- Hebrew: “מסייף”
- Italian: “Masyad”
- Italian: “Masyaf”
- Japanese: “マスヤーフ”
- Korean: “마스야프”
- Korean: “마시아프”
- Kurdish: “Misyaf”
- Lithuanian: “Masjafas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masyaf”
- Persian: “مسیف”
- Persian: “مصیاف”
- Polish: “Masjaf”
- Polish: “Masyaf”
- Portuguese: “Massiafe”
- Portuguese: “Masyaf”
- Romanian: “Masyaf”
- Russian: “Масиаф”
- Russian: “Масьяф”
- Russian: “Масяа́ф”
- Scots: “Masyaf”
- Serbian: “Masijaf”
- Serbian: “Масијаф”
- Slovenian: “Masjaf”
- Slovenian: “Masyaf”
- Slovenian: “Misjaf”
- Slovenian: “Misyaf”
- Slovenian: “Musjaf”
- Slovenian: “Musyaf”
- Spanish: “Masyaf”
- Swedish: “Masyaf”
- Ukrainian: “Масіаф”
- Ukrainian: “Масьяф”
- Urdu: “مصیاف”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Masyaf”. Photo: Alen Ištoković, CC BY 3.0.