Beer Ajam
Beer Ajam is a Syrian Circassian village in the Quneitra Governorate in the Golan Heights. It has been inhabited for about 150 years. Its first houses were built in 1872.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 353 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Bi’r ‘Ajam”, “Bi’r `Ajam”, “Bi’r Ajam”, “Bi’r al ‘Ajam”, “Bīr ‘Ajam”, and “Bîr Aajam”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mt. Hozek and Jiza.
Jiza
Ruins
Photo: Beco1977, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jiza is a ruins, which is situated 3 km southwest of Beer Ajam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bereiqa and Alonei HaBashan.
Bereiqa
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bariqa is a village in southwestern Syria, administratively part of the Quneitra Governorate, south of Quneitra, in the Syrian-controlled portion of the Golan Heights.
Alonei HaBashan
Village
Alonei HaBashan is an Israeli settlement located in the eastern Golan Heights, organized as a moshav shitufi, under the administration of Israel. The settlement was established after Israel occupied the area in the Six Day War in 1967. Alonei HaBashan is situated 3 km west of Beer Ajam.
Ein Zivan
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ein Zivan is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights, under the jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. Ein Zivan is situated 8 km northwest of Beer Ajam.
Beer Ajam
- Categories: village, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.05314° or 33° 3′ 11″ northLongitude
35.86737° or 35° 52′ 3″ eastPopulation
353Elevation
933 metres (3,061 feet)Open location code
8G5Q3V38+7WOpenStreetMap ID
node 12238717925OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
171436Wikidata ID
Q1830602
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Beer Ajam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بئر عجم”
- Arabic: “بئرعجم”
- Arabic: “بير عجم”
- Danish: “Beer Ajam”
- Dutch: “Beer ajam”
- Dutch: “Beer Ajam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بئر عجم”
- French: “Bir Adjam”
- French: “Bir Ajam”
- German: “Beer Ajam”
- German: “Bi’r Adscham”
- German: “Bir Adscham”
- Hebrew: “ביר אל-עג’ם”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beer Ajam”
- Persian: “بئر عجم”
- Polish: “Bir Adżam”
- Russian: “Биир-Аджам”
- Russian: “Бир Аджам”
- Russian: “Бир-Аджам”
- Spanish: “Bir Ajam”
- Turkish: “Beer Acem”
- Turkish: “Birul-Acem”
- Urdu: “بئر عجم”
- Vietnamese: “Beer Ajam”
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