Dura-Europos

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres above the southwestern bank of the river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in present-day .
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  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of 222 metres (728 feet)
  • Description: ancient Syrian city
  • Also known as
    “al Athar (the ruins)”
    “alsuwr (the wall)”
    “Aş Şālihīyah”
    “Dura”
    “Dura Nicanoris”
    “Dura-Europus”
    “Europos”
    “Europus”
    “Mint of Dura-Europus”
    “Qal‘at aş Şāliḩīyah”
    “Qal‘at es Sālihīye”
    “Salahiye”
    “Şālḩīyah”
    “Sâlhîye”
    “Şāliḩīyah”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dura-Europos synagogue and Temple of Zeus Theos.

Synagogue
Photo: Marsyas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The was an ancient Jewish… is situated 290 metres west of Dura-Europos.

Historic site
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The at Dura Europos was built… is situated 180 metres northeast of Dura-Europos.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dura-Europos church is the earliest identified Christian house church. is situated 320 metres southwest of Dura-Europos.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gharanij.

Town
is a town located in , . is situated 3 km north of Dura-Europos.

Dura-Europos

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Latitude
34.7479° or 34° 44′ 52″ north
Longitude
40.73003° or 40° 43′ 48″ east
Open location code
8H62PPXJ+52
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23197438
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
172481
Wiki­data ID
Q464266

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Dura-Europos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آثار الصالحية”
  • Arabic: “الآثار ( الأطلال)”
  • Arabic: “الآثار”
  • Arabic: “السور”
  • Arabic: “دورا أوربوس”
  • Arabic: “دورا أوروبوس”
  • Arabic: “دورا”
  • Arabic: “قلعة الصالحية”
  • Armenian: “Դուրա Եվրոպոս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dura-Avropos”
  • Basque: “Dura Europos”
  • Basque: “Dura-Europos”
  • Bulgarian: “Дура Европос”
  • Catalan: “Dura Europos”
  • Chinese: “杜拉-歐羅普斯”
  • Chinese: “杜拉欧罗普斯”
  • Chinese: “杜拉歐羅普斯”
  • Croatian: “Dura-Europos”
  • Croatian: “Dura-Europus”
  • Czech: “Dura Európos”
  • Czech: “Dúra Európos”
  • Czech: “Dura-Europos”
  • Danish: “Dura-Europos”
  • Dutch: “Doera-Europos”
  • Dutch: “Doura-Europos”
  • Dutch: “Dura Europos”
  • Dutch: “Dura Europus”
  • Dutch: “Dura-Europos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دورا اوربوس”
  • Esperanto: “Dura Europos”
  • Estonian: “Dura-Europos”
  • Finnish: “Dura Europos”
  • Finnish: “Dura-Europos”
  • French: “Doura Europos”
  • French: “Doura-Europos”
  • French: “Dura Europos”
  • French: “Dura-Europos”
  • French: “Europos-Doura”
  • German: “Doura Europos”
  • German: “Doura-Europos”
  • German: “Dura Europos”
  • German: “Dura-europos”
  • German: “Qal’at es-Salihiye”
  • Greek: “Δούρα Ευρωπός”
  • Hebrew: “דורה אורופוס”
  • Hebrew: “דורה אירופוס”
  • Hungarian: “Dura-Európosz”
  • Indonesian: “Dura-Europos”
  • Italian: “Doura Europos”
  • Italian: “Doura Europus”
  • Italian: “Doura”
  • Italian: “Dura Europos”
  • Italian: “Dura-Europos”
  • Japanese: “エウロポスの砦”
  • Japanese: “ドゥラ・エウローポス”
  • Japanese: “ドゥラ・エウロポス”
  • Kazakh: “Dwra-Ewropos”
  • Kazakh: “Дура — Еуропос”
  • Kazakh: “Дура-Еуропос”
  • Kazakh: “دۋرا-ەۋروپوس”
  • Korean: “두라 에우로포스”
  • Korean: “살히예”
  • Latvian: “Dūra-Eiropa”
  • Lithuanian: “Dura Europas”
  • Lithuanian: “Dura-Europas”
  • Malayalam: “ഡുറാ യുറോപ്പോസ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dura Europos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dura-Europos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qalat as-Salihiya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salhiyé”
  • Norwegian: “Dura Europos”
  • Persian: “دورا اروپوس”
  • Persian: “دورا-اروپوس”
  • Persian: “دورا-یوروپوس”
  • Persian: “دورا”
  • Polish: “As-Salihijja”
  • Polish: “Dura Europos”
  • Polish: “Kalat as-Salihijja”
  • Portuguese: “Dura Europo”
  • Portuguese: “Dura Europos”
  • Portuguese: “Dura-Europos”
  • Romanian: “Dura-Europos”
  • Russian: “Дура Европос”
  • Russian: “Дура-Европ”
  • Russian: “Дура-Европос”
  • Russian: “Дура-Эвропос”
  • Serbian: “Дура Еуропос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dura Europos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dura-Europos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dura-Europus”
  • Slovenian: “Dura - Europos”
  • Slovenian: “Dura Europos”
  • Slovenian: “Dura Evropos”
  • Slovenian: “Dura-Europos”
  • Slovenian: “Dura-Evropos”
  • Slovenian: “Kan Kalesi”
  • Spanish: “Dura Europos”
  • Swedish: “Dura-Europos”
  • Swedish: “Dura-Europus”
  • Turkish: “Dura Europos”
  • Ukrainian: “Дура-Европос”
  • Urdu: “دوار آروبوس”
  • Uzbek: “Dura-yevropos”
  • Uzbek: “Dura-Yevropos”

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