Al-Ghassaniyah
Al-Ghassaniya is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located south of Homs and just east of Lake Qattinah. Nearby localities include Kafr Mousa to the south, district capital al-Qusayr 13 kilometers to the southeast, al-Buwaida al-Sharqiya to the east and Qattinah to the northeast.- Type: Village with 4,510 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Al Ghassaniyah”, “Al Ghassānīyah”, “Al-Ghassaniya”, “Al-Ghassaniyah, Homs”, “Kafer Aabdé”, “Kafer Aabdi”, “Kafr ‘Abdah”, “Kafr ‘Abduh”, “Kafr Abda”, “Kafr Abdi”, and “كفر عبدة”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kafr Musa and Al-Hoz.
Al-Hoz
Village
Al-Houz is a village in central Syria… Al-Hoz is situated 4 km southwest of Al-Ghassaniyah.
Damina al-Gharbiya
Village
Daminah al-Gharbiyah is a village in central Syria… Damina al-Gharbiya is situated 4 km east of Al-Ghassaniyah.
Al-Ghassaniyah
- Categories: populated place in Syria and locality
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.59823° or 34° 35′ 54″ north
Longitude
36.55164° or 36° 33′ 6″ east
Population
4,510
Elevation
505 metres (1,657 feet)
Open location code
8G6RHHX2+7M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al-Ghassaniyah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الغسانية”
- Dutch: “Al-Ghassaniyah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الغسانيه”
- French: “Al-Ghassania”
- French: “Al-Ghassaniyah”
- German: “al-Gassanija”
- Italian: “Al-Ghassaniyah”
- Persian: “الغسانیة”
- Persian: “الغسانیه”
- Polish: “Al-Ghassanijja”
- Russian: “Аль-Гассанийя”
- Spanish: “Al-Ghassaniyah”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Ghassaniyah”
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