Jaramana
Jaramana is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in the Ghouta plain. Its location, 3 kilometers southeast of the Syrian capital, makes it a bustling town in the greater Damascus metropolitan area, with a mostly Christian and Druze population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 114,000 residents
- Description: city in Rif Dimashq, Syria
- Also known as: “Djaramānā”, “Jaramānah”, “Jéramâna”, and “Jurmānā”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bab ash-Sharqi and Bab Kisan.
Bab ash-Sharqi
City gate
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Sharqi, also known as the Gate of the Sun, is one of the seven ancient city gates of Damascus, Syria. Its modern name comes from its location in the eastern side of the city.
Bab Kisan
City gate
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Kisan is one of the seven ancient city-gates of Damascus, Syria. The gate, which is now located in the southeastern part of the Old City, was named in memory of a slave who became famous during a conquest by the Caliph Mu'awiya.
Zeitoun Church
Church
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition, also known as The Olive Church or the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady, is the cathedral of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in the city of Damascus, Syria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit Sahm and Aqraba.
Beit Sahm
Village
Beit Sahem is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located Damascus's southeastern outskirts.
Aqraba
Village
Aqraba is a Syrian village located in the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of Rif Dimashq Governorate. Aqraba had a population of 6,799 in the 2004 census.
Babella
Town
Babbila is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located on the southern outskirts of Damascus to the east of the Yarmouk Camp.
Jaramana
- Categories: big city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.48639° or 33° 29′ 11″ northLongitude
36.34828° or 36° 20′ 54″ eastPopulation
114,000Elevation
670 metres (2,198 feet)Open location code
8G5RF8PX+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 573517691OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
169174Wikidata ID
Q195531
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jaramana” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جرمانا”
- Asturian: “Jaramana”
- Bengali: “জারামানা”
- Catalan: “Jaramana”
- Cebuano: “Jaramānā”
- Central Kurdish: “جەرمانا”
- Chinese: “賈拉馬納”
- Croatian: “Džaramana”
- Czech: “Džaramáná”
- Dutch: “Jaramanah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرمانا”
- Esperanto: “Ĝaramana”
- Finnish: “Jaramana”
- French: “Djaramana”
- French: “Jaramana”
- German: “Dscharamana”
- German: “Jaramanah”
- Greek: “Τζερμάνα”
- Hebrew: “ג’רמאנא”
- Hebrew: “ג׳רמאנא”
- Hebrew: “ג’רמאנה”
- Indonesian: “Jaramana”
- Irish: “Jaramana”
- Italian: “Jaramana”
- Japanese: “ジャラマーナー”
- Korean: “자라마나”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaramana”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaramana”
- Persian: “جرمانا”
- Polish: “Dżaramana”
- Portuguese: “Jaramana”
- Russian: “Джарамана”
- Russian: “Джерамана”
- Scots: “Jaramana”
- Serbian: “Џарамана”
- Slovenian: “Džaramana”
- Tunisian Arabic: “جرمانا”
- Turkish: “Ceramana”
- Ukrainian: “Джерамана”
- Ukrainian: “Джермана”
- Urdu: “جرمانا”
- Urdu: “جرمانہ”
- Vietnamese: “Jaramana”
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