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 rugged mountainside at an altitude of more than 1,500m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,760 residents
- Description: town near Damascus in Syria
- Also known as: “Ma’loula”, “Ma’lula”, “Ma‘lūlah”, “Ma`lula”, “Maaloûla”, “Maʻlūlā”, and “Maʿlūlā”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mar Sarkis and Qalamoun Mountains.
Qalamoun Mountains
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jib’adin and As-Sarkha.
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 4 km southwest of Maaloula.
As-Sarkha
Village
Al-Sarkha, Bakh'ah or Bakh'a is a depopulated Syrian village in the Yabroud District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Al-Sarkha had a population of 1,405 in the 2004 census. 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″ northLongitude
36.54615° or 36° 32′ 46″ eastPopulation
2,760Elevation
1,426 metres (4,678 feet)Open location code
8G5RRGVW+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 567105900OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
167375Wikidata ID
Q740804
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Satellite Map
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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: “Maaloula”
- Catalan: “Maalula”
- Catalan: “Malula”
- Cebuano: “Ma‘lūlā”
- Chinese: “馬盧拉”
- Chinese: “馬路拉”
- Czech: “Malúla”
- Dutch: “Ma’loula”
- Dutch: “Ma`loula”
- Dutch: “Maaloula”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معلولا”
- Esperanto: “Maalula”
- Finnish: “Maaloula”
- French: “Ma’aloula”
- French: “Ma’loula”
- French: “Maaloula”
- Galician: “Maalula”
- Georgian: “მალულა”
- German: “Maalula”
- German: “Maʿlula”
- Greek: “Μαλούλα”
- Hebrew: “מעלולא”
- Hebrew: “מעלולה”
- Hindi: “मा‘लोउला”
- Hindi: “मा’लोउला”
- Hungarian: “Maalula”
- Hungarian: “Maalúla”
- Hungarian: “Malula”
- Indonesian: “Ma’loula”
- Indonesian: “Ma`loula”
- Indonesian: “Maaloula”
- Irish: “Maaloula”
- Italian: “Ma’loula”
- Italian: “Ma’lula”
- Japanese: “Maaloula”
- Japanese: “Maˁlūla”
- Japanese: “معلولا”
- Japanese: “ܡܥܠܐ”
- Japanese: “マアルーラ”
- Korean: “마루라”
- Korean: “마알룰라”
- Latin: “Ma’lula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ma’loula”
- 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: “Маалюла”
- Russian: “Маалюля”
- Scots: “Maaloula”
- Serbian: “Малула”
- Slovenian: “Ma`loula”
- Slovenian: “Maaloula”
- Slovenian: “Maalula”
- Slovenian: “Maloula”
- Slovenian: “Malula”
- Spanish: “Ma’alula”
- Spanish: “Ma’lula”
- 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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