Khan al-Shih
Khan al-Shih is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus. It also contains a refugee camp by the same name.- Type: Locality
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Khan al-Sheh”, “Khan al-Sheih”, “Khan Eshieh”, “Mukhayyam Khan ash Shih”, and “Mukhayyam Khān ash Shīḩ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nahr Barbar.
Nahr Barbar
Locality
Pharpar is a biblical river in Syria. It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the Book of Kings, now generally identified with the Nahr al-Awaj, also called Awaj, although if the reference to Damascus is limited to the city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be the modern Taura. Nahr Barbar is situated 5 km north of Khan al-Shih.
Khan al-Shih
- Categories: village and populated place in Syria
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Khan al-Shih” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خان الشيح”
- Arabic: “مخيم خان الشيح”
- Bengali: “খান আল-শিহ”
- Dutch: “Khan al-Shih”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خان الشيح”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khan al-Shih”
- Persian: “خان الشیح”
- Polish: “Chan asz-Szajch”
- Polish: “Chan asz-Szih”
- Vietnamese: “Khan al-Shih”
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