Qaboun
Qaboun is a municipality and neighbourhood in Damascus, Syria, located 6 kilometers north-east of the city center, to the north of Jobar district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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.
Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium
Stadium
The Abbasiyyin Stadium is a multi-use all-seater stadium in Damascus, Syria, that is currently out of use. It mostly hosted football matches and served as the home venue of the Syrian national team in the past. Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium is situated 2½ km southwest of Qaboun.
October War Panorama
Museum
Photo: Jadd Haidar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The October War Panorama is a National museum located in Damascus, Syria which commemorates the memory of the 1973 October War between Egypt and Syria against Israel from a Syrian perspective, and the 1982 Lebanon War battles that were fought against israel.
Bab Touma
City gate
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bab Tuma is a neighborhood located in the old city of Damascus in Syria. It is one of the seven gates of Damascus, a geographic landmark of Christianity. Bab Touma is situated 4 km southwest of Qaboun.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jobar and Barzeh.
Jobar
Village
Jobar also Jawbar, Jober or Joubar, is a village on the outskirts of Damascus northeast of the old city walls. It contains the most venerated site for Syrian Jews, the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue, named for the biblical prophet Elijah, and has been a place of Jewish pilgrimage for many centuries.
Barzeh
Town
Photo: El Mono Español, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Barzeh or Barza is a municipality and a neighborhood to the north of Damascus, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Barzeh had a population of 47,339 in the 2004 census.
Abu Jarash
Quarter
Abu Jarash is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004 census. In the 1936 French Mandate census, Abu Jarash had a population of 9,600, all Muslims.
Qaboun
- Categories: geographical feature, municipality, and locality
- Location: Damascus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.54386° or 33° 32′ 38″ northLongitude
36.33427° or 36° 20′ 3″ eastElevation
729 metres (2,392 feet)Open location code
8G5RG8VM+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 12506635869OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Qaboun”. Photo: Muayad hamwi, CC BY-SA 3.0.