Maaloula
Maaloula is a town in southwestern Syria. The town is located in the Rif Dimashq Governorate and is 56 km northeast of Damascus, and is built into the mountainside at an altitude of more than 1,500m.
- Type: Village with 2,760 residents
- Description: town near Damascus in Syria
- Also known as: “Ma’aloula”, “Ma’alula”, “Ma’loula”, “Ma‘lūlah”, “Ma`lula”, “Maaloûla”, “Maʻlūlā”, “Maloula”, “Maʿlula”, “Maʿlūlā”, “Maˁlūla”, “Маалюла”, “ܡܥܠܐ”, and “馬路拉”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mar Sarkis and Qalamoun Mountains.
Qalamoun Mountains
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jib’adin and As-Sarkha.
Jib’adin
Village
Jubb'adin is a village in southern Syria… Jib’adin is situated 4 km southwest of Maaloula.
As-Sarkha
Village
Al-Sarkha, Bakh'ah or Bakh'a is a depopulated Syrian… As-Sarkha is situated 5 km north of Maaloula.
Maaloula
- Categories: archaeological site, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.84419° or 33° 50′ 39″ north
Longitude
36.54615° or 36° 32′ 46″ east
Population
2,760
Elevation
1,426 metres (4,678 feet)
Open location code
8G5RRGVW+MF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Maaloula” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ma’loula”
- Afrikaans: “Maaloula”
- Arabic: “معلولا”
- Armenian: “Մաալուլա”
- Basque: “Maalula”
- Belarusian: “Малула”
- Bulgarian: “Маалюля”
- Catalan: “Maalula”
- Cebuano: “Ma‘lūlā”
- Chinese: “馬盧拉”
- Czech: “Malúla”
- Dutch: “Ma`loula”
- Dutch: “Maaloula”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معلولا”
- Esperanto: “Maalula”
- Finnish: “Maaloula”
- French: “Maaloula”
- Galician: “Maalula”
- Georgian: “მალულა”
- German: “Maalula”
- Greek: “Μαλούλα”
- Hebrew: “מעלולא”
- Hebrew: “מעלולה”
- Hindi: “मा‘लोउला”
- Hindi: “मा’लोउला”
- Hungarian: “Maalula”
- Hungarian: “Maalúla”
- Hungarian: “Malula”
- Indonesian: “Ma`loula”
- Indonesian: “Maaloula”
- Irish: “Maaloula”
- Italian: “Ma’lula”
- Japanese: “マアルーラ”
- Korean: “마루라”
- Korean: “마알룰라”
- Latin: “Ma’lula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maaloula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ma’loula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maaloula”
- Norwegian: “Maaloula”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܥܠܘܠܐ”
- Persian: “معلولا”
- Polish: “Maalula”
- Polish: “Malula”
- Portuguese: “Maalula”
- Russian: “Маалула”
- Russian: “Маалюля”
- Scots: “Maaloula”
- Serbian: “Малула”
- Slovenian: “Malula”
- Spanish: “Maalula”
- Spanish: “Malula”
- Swedish: “Ma’loula”
- Swedish: “Maaloula”
- Turkish: “Malule”
- Turkish: “Mâlule”
- Ukrainian: “Маалюля”
- Urdu: “معلولا”
- Vietnamese: “Maaloula”
- Western Frisian: “Maaloula”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: El-Jameiat and Mar Sergios Housing Association.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: دير القديسين سيرج وباخوس Couvent Sts. Serge et Bacchus and Holy Maryam.
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