Jebel Aqra
Jebel Aqra is a limestone mountain located on the Syrian–Turkish border near the mouth of the Orontes River on the Mediterranean Sea. Rising from a narrow coastal plain, Jebel Aqra is a mariners' landmark that gathers thunderstorms.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,704 metres
- Description: mountain on the Syria–Turkey border
- Also known as: “Cebeli Akra”, “Hazzi”, “Jabal al Aqra`”, “Jebel al Akra”, “Kel Dag”, and “Kel Dağ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barlum Monastery.
Barlum Monastery
Church
Monastery of Saint Barlaam is a 10th-century Georgian monastery in Antioch, modern-day Turkey's Hatay Province. During the Seleucid and the Roman era there existed a Doric temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kessab and Bezge.
Kessab
Town
Photo: Kevorkmail, CC BY 3.0.
Kessab, also spelled Kesab or Kasab, is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located 59 kilometers north of Latakia.
Bezge
Village
Bezge is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Yayladağı, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 867. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. It is 10 kilometres northwest from Yayladağı.
Jebel Aqra
- Categories: mountain, sacred mountain, and landform
- Location: Yayladağı İlçesi, Hatay, Mediterranean Turkey, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.95203° or 35° 57′ 7″ northLongitude
35.96916° or 35° 58′ 9″ eastElevation
1,704 metres (5,591 feet)Open location code
8G7QXX29+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 567063183OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Jebel Aqra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجبل الأقرع”
- Arabic: “جبل الأقرع”
- Cebuano: “Cebeli Akra”
- Cebuano: “Kel Dağ”
- Czech: “Keldağ”
- Dutch: “Cebeli Akra”
- Dutch: “Hazzi”
- Dutch: “Kel Dağ”
- Estonian: “Hazzi”
- Estonian: “Keldağ”
- French: “djebel Akra”
- French: “Djebel Akra”
- German: “Dschabal al-Aqraʿ”
- German: “Jabal al Aqra`”
- German: “Jabal al-Aqraa”
- German: “Keldağ”
- German: “Mons Casius”
- German: “Zeus Kasion”
- Greek: “Κάσιο όρος”
- Greek: “Κάσιος”
- Greek: “όρος Κάσιος”
- Greek: “Τζεμπέλ Άκρα”
- Greek: “Χαζί”
- Hebrew: “הר חזו”
- Hebrew: “הר חזי”
- Hebrew: “הר צפון”
- Hebrew: “הר קל”
- Hebrew: “הר קסיוס”
- Hungarian: “Hazzi-hegy”
- Italian: “Jebel Aqra”
- Japanese: “カシオス山”
- Ladin: “Hazzi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aqraa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Casius”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Safon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “جبل الأقرع”
- Persian: “کوه عقرا”
- Polish: “Dżabal Akra”
- Polish: “Dżabal al-Akra”
- Polish: “Góra Kılıç”
- Polish: “Hazzi”
- Polish: “Jebel Aqra”
- Polish: “Kel Dağı”
- Portuguese: “Jebel Aqra”
- Portuguese: “Monte Acra”
- Russian: “Джебели-Акра”
- Russian: “Джебель-Акра”
- Turkish: “Kel Dağ”
- Turkish: “Kel Dağı”
- Uzbek: “Aqro togʻi”
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