Fahham
Fahham is an abandoned locality in Quneitra Governorate, Syria. Fahham is situated nearby to the abandoned locality Khirbat Fārāg, as well as near the village Keshet.Places of Interest
Highlights include Einot Pekham and Tel Hoshania.
Tel Hoshania
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Khushniyeh, or Khishniyyeh is a former Syrian town located in the Golan Heights. Tel Hoshania is situated 3½ km northwest of Fahham.
Tel Fares Nature Reserve
Protected area
Photo: Alhimik, Public domain.
Tel Fares Nature Reserve is a protected area, which is situated 3½ km east of Fahham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keshet and Yonatan.
Keshet
Village
Photo: yanshoof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keshet is an Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights, organized as a moshav shitufi. It was established in 1974 after the Yom Kippur War by young activists near the Syrian city of Quneitra, which had been occupied and subsequently razed to the ground in the Six-Day War.
Yonatan
Village
Yonatan is an Israeli settlement and moshav located in the central Golan Heights. Initially a moshav shitufi, it underwent a privatization process to become a community settlement. Yonatan is situated 4½ km southwest of Fahham.
Al-Rafid
Village
Al-Rafid is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Quneitra Governorate, in the portion of the province under the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone. Al-Rafid is situated 7 km east of Fahham.
Fahham
- Type: Abandoned locality
- Also known as: “Al Faḩḩām”, “El Fahhâm”, and “Faḩḩam”
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.969° or 32° 58′ 8″ northLongitude
35.82589° or 35° 49′ 33″ eastElevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)Open location code
8G4QXR9G+H9GeoNames ID
173906
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In Other Languages
“Fahham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فحام”
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