Qaboun

Qaboun is a municipality and neighbourhood in , , located 6 kilometers north-east of the city center, to the north of district.
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Photo: Muayad hamwi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Town
  • Description: municipality in Syria
  • Also known as: “Al Qaboun”, “Al Qābūn”, “Kaboun”, “Kābūn”, and “Qâboûn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium and October War Panorama.

Stadium
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The Abbasiyyin Stadium is a multi-use all-seater stadium in , , that is currently closed. It mostly hosted football matches and served as the home venue of the Syrian national team in the past. is situated 2½ km southwest of Qaboun.

Museum
Photo: Jadd Haidar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a National museum located in , which commemorates the memory of the 1973 October War between and Syria against from a Syrian perspective, and the 1982 Lebanon War battles that were fought against Israel.

City gate
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bab Tuma is a neighborhood located in the old city of Damascus in . It is named after one of the seven gates of old city of Damascus, located within the neighbourhood. is situated 4 km southwest of Qaboun.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jobar and Barzeh.

Village
also Jawbar, Jober or Joubar, is a village on the outskirts of northeast of the old city walls. It contains the most venerated site for Syrian Jews, the 2,000-year-old Synagogue, named for the biblical prophet Elijah, and has been a place of Jewish pilgrimage for many centuries.

Town
Photo: El Mono Español, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Barza is a municipality and a neighborhood to the north of , . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, had a population of 47,339 in the 2004 census.

Quarter
is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of , . It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004 census. In the 1936 French Mandate census, had a population of 9,600, all Muslims.

Qaboun

Latitude
33.54386° or 33° 32′ 38″ north
Longitude
36.33427° or 36° 20′ 3″ east
Elevation
729 metres (2,392 feet)
Open location code
8G5RG8VM+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12506635869
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
173396
Wiki­data ID
Q4703046
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qaboun” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Qābūn”
  • Arabic: “القابون”
  • Arabic: “حي القابون”
  • Arabic: “قابون”
  • Central Kurdish: “قابوون”
  • Chinese: “Qaboun”
  • French: “Al Qabun”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Qaboun”
  • Persian: “ال-قابون”
  • Persian: “قابون”
  • Polish: “Al-Kabun”
  • Russian: “Кабун”
  • Russian: “Эль-Кабун”
  • Spanish: “Qabún”
  • Turkish: “El-Kabun”
  • Vietnamese: “Qaboun”

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