Al-Kiswah
Al-Kiswah is a city in the Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. It is located approximately 13 kilometres south of Damascus. It was the location of the 1303 Battle of Marj al-Saffar, and the childhood home of Adnan Awad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: عبدالرحمن الصياد-أبوعابد, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 43,500 residents
- Description: place in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
- Also known as: “Al-Kiswa”, “Kesweh”, “Kisoué”, “Kissoue”, “Kisswa”, “Kiswah”, and “Kisweh”
Al-Kiswah
- Categories: city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.35842° or 33° 21′ 30″ northLongitude
36.24111° or 36° 14′ 28″ eastPopulation
43,500Elevation
724 metres (2,375 feet)Open location code
8G5R965R+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 567046783OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
173598Wikidata ID
Q2915767
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al-Kiswah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكسوة”
- Arabic: “الكسوه”
- Arabic: “كسوة”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Քիսվա”
- Asturian: “Al-Kiswah”
- Catalan: “Al-Kiswa”
- Cebuano: “Al Kiswah”
- Chinese: “基斯沃”
- Dutch: “Al-Kiswah”
- French: “Al-Kisoua”
- French: “Al-Kiswah”
- German: “al-Kiswa”
- German: “Al-Kiswa”
- German: “Alkiswa”
- Hebrew: “אל כיסווה”
- Hebrew: “אל-כיסווה”
- Hebrew: “אל-כסווה”
- Japanese: “アル゠キスワ”
- Japanese: “アル・キスワ”
- Korean: “알키스와”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Kiswah”
- Persian: “الکسوة”
- Persian: “الکسوه”
- Polish: “Al-Kiswa”
- Portuguese: “Al-Kiswa”
- Russian: “Аль-Кисва”
- Russian: “Кисуа”
- Russian: “Эль-Кисва”
- Scots: “Al-Kiswah”
- Scots: “Kiswe”
- Swedish: “Al Kiswah”
- Thai: “อัลกิสวะฮ์”
- Turkish: “El-Kisve”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Kiswah”
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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 “Al-Kiswah”. Photo: عبدالرحمن الصياد-أبوعابد, Public domain.