Al-Qaryatayn
Al-Qaryatayn, also spelled Karyatayn, Qaratin or Cariatein, is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate located southeast of Homs.- Town with about 37,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 750 metres (2,470 feet)
- Description: city in Syria
- Also known as“Al-Qaryatain”“Al-Qaryatayn, Homs”“El Qaryatein”“Kariatein”“Kariateine”“Karyatein”“Kuriatein”“Kuryatein”“Nezala”“Qariateïne”“Qaryatayn”“Quraytayn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monastery of St. Elian.
Monastery of St. Elian
Building
The Monastery of St. Elian is a Syriac Catholic…
Al-Qaryatayn
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Latitude
34.22889° or 34° 13′ 44″ north
Longitude
37.2383° or 37° 14′ 18″ east
Open location code
8G6V66HQ+H8
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Al-Qaryatayn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القريتين”
- Arabic: “قريتين”
- Armenian: “ալ-Կարյաթեյն”
- Asturian: “Al-Qaryatayn”
- Catalan: “al-Qaryatain”
- Cebuano: “Al Qaryatayn”
- Central Kurdish: “قەریەتەین”
- Chinese: “盖尔亚廷”
- Czech: “Karajtín”
- Dutch: “Al-Qaryatayn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القريتين”
- Finnish: “Al-Qaryatayn”
- French: “Al-Qariataine”
- French: “Al-Qaryatayn”
- French: “Quayatein” (historical)
- German: “Al-Karjatain”
- German: “al-Karjatein”
- German: “Al-Qaryatain”
- German: “Karjatain”
- Hebrew: “אל-קריתין”
- Indonesian: “Al Qaryatain”
- Italian: “Al-Qaryatayn”
- Italian: “Cariatein”
- Italian: “Karyatayn”
- Italian: “Qaratin”
- Japanese: “アル゠カリャタイン”
- Japanese: “カルヤタイン”
- Kabyle: “Qariten”
- Korean: “알카랴타인”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Qaryatayn”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܪܝܬܝܢ”
- Persian: “القریتین”
- Polish: “Al-Karjatajn”
- Russian: “Аль-Карятайн”
- Russian: “Эль-Карьятайн”
- Russian: “Эль-Карьятейн”
- Spanish: “Al-Qaryatayn”
- Swedish: “Al Qaryatayn”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include National Hospital in Al-Qaryatayn and Church of Saint Elian.
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