Al-Hawash
Al-Hawash is a Greek Orthodox Christians town in northwestern Syria, administratively belonging to the Homs Governorate. Nearby towns include al-Husn and Marmarita to the west, Shin to the east and Talkalakh to the southwest.
Photo: Micheloo, Public domain.- Type: Village with 4,070 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Al Hawash”, “Al Ḩawāsh”, “Al-Hawash, Homs”, “Haouâch”, and “Ḩawāsh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Krak des Chevaliers.
Krak des Chevaliers
Krak des Chevaliers located near Homs in Syria is widely recognised as the archetypal Crusader castle. Described by T.E. Lawrence as "perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world", this somewhat isolated site is located magnificently and is, indeed, extremely well-preserved.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Mizaina and An-Nasra.
Al-Mizaina
Village
Mizyeneh or Mazyanah is a small Greek Orthodox Christian village located in Western Syria close to the Lebanese borders and administratively belonging to the Homs Governorate.
An-Nasra
Village
Al-Nasirah is a small Christian town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located west of Homs. Nearby localities include Habnamrah to the northwest, Marmarita and Ayn al-Bardah to the west, Zweitina to the southwest, al-Husn to the south, al-Huwash and al-Mazinah to the southeast, Shin to the east, Muqlus to the northeast, Hadeih and Mashta al-Helu to the north. An-Nasra is situated 4½ km northwest of Al-Hawash.
Al-Mishtaya
Village
Al-Mishtaya is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located west of Homs and north of the border with Lebanon. Al-Mishtaya is situated 4½ km west of Al-Hawash.
Al-Hawash
- Categories: populated place in Syria and locality
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.7572° or 34° 45′ 26″ north
Longitude
36.319° or 36° 19′ 8″ east
Population
4,070
Elevation
333 metres (1,093 feet)
Open location code
8G6RQ849+VJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al-Hawash” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحاواش (حمص)”
- Arabic: “الحاواش”
- Arabic: “الحواش”
- Arabic: “حواش”
- Dutch: “Al-Huwash”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الحواش”
- Estonian: “Al-Ḩawāsh”
- French: “Al-Haouach”
- French: “Al-Hawash”
- German: “al-Hawasch”
- Hebrew: “אל-חוואש”
- Italian: “Al-Hawash”
- Japanese: “アル゠ハワーシ”
- Korean: “알하와슈”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Huwash”
- Persian: “الحواش”
- Polish: “Al-Hawasz”
- Russian: “Аль-Хаваш”
- Russian: “Эль-Хаваш”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Hawash, Tỉnh Homs”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Hawash”
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