Al-Hamidiyah

Al-Hamidiyah is a town on the Syrian coast. The town was founded in a very short time on the direct orders of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamit II around 1897, to serve as a refuge for the Greek-speaking Muslim Cretan community, forced to leave during the 1897–98 Greco-Turkish War and resettled by the Sultan in Hamidiyeh and other coastal areas of the and as far as .
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  • Town with 7,400 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 4 metres (13 feet)
  • Description: village in Syria
  • Also known as
    “Al-Hamidiya”
    “Hamide”
    “Hamidieh”
    “Hamīdīya”
    “Ḩamīdīyah”
    “Hamîdiyé”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tell Kazel.
is an oval-shaped tell that measures 350… is situated 4 km east of Al-Hamidiyah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arida.
, also spelled Aarida, is a village in northern… is situated 9 km south of Al-Hamidiyah.

Al-Hamidiyah

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Latitude
34.71241° or 34° 42′ 45″ north
Longitude
35.94529° or 35° 56′ 43″ east
Open location code
8G6QPW6W+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 572556556
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
173842
Wiki­data ID
Q2369490

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al-Hamidiyah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحميدية”
  • Arabic: “حميدية”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Համիդիա”
  • Croatian: “Al-Hamidija”
  • Dutch: “Al-Hamidiyah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الحميديه”
  • Finnish: “Al-Hamidiya”
  • Finnish: “Al-Hamidiyah”
  • French: “Al-Hamidia”
  • French: “Al-Hamidiyah”
  • German: “al-Hamidija”
  • German: “Hamidiya”
  • Greek: “Χαμιδιέ”
  • Greek: “Χαμιντιέ”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חמידיה”
  • Japanese: “アル゠ハミディヤ”
  • Japanese: “アル＝ハミーディーヤ”
  • Korean: “알하미디야”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Hamidiyah”
  • Persian: “حمیدیه”
  • Polish: “Al-Hamidijja”
  • Russian: “Аль-Хамиди́йя”
  • Russian: “Эль-Хамидия”
  • Scots: “Al-Hamidiyah”
  • Turkish: “Hamidiya”
  • Turkish: “Hamidiye, Tartus”
  • Turkish: “Hamidiye”
  • Ukrainian: “Хамедія”
  • Vietnamese: “Al-Hamidiyah”

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