Madinat al-Salam
Madinat al-Salam, also known as New Quneitra, is a town in the UNDOF Zone that is the administrative centre of the Quneitra Governorate of southern Syria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Al Ba‘th”, “Ba’ath City”, “Madīnat al Ba‘th”, “Madinat al Ba`th”, “Madinat al-Ba’ath”, “Madinat al-Baath”, and “New Quneitra”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Golan Heights and Buq’ata.
Golan Heights
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Quneitra is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria. It is situated in a high valley in the Golan Heights at 1,010 metres above sea level.
Buq’ata
Village
Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.
Buq'ata is a Druze town, administered as a local council, in the northern section of the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights. Buq'ata covers an area of 7,000 dunams between two mountains in the Golan Heights, Mount Hermonit and Mount Varda. Buq’ata is situated 9 km west of Madinat al-Salam.
El Rom
Village
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Rom is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. El Rom is situated 9 km west of Madinat al-Salam.
Madinat al-Salam
- Categories: human-geographic territorial entity, village, and populated place in Syria
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Madinat al-Salam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البعث (مدينه)”
- Arabic: “البعث”
- Arabic: “مدينة البعث”
- Arabic: “مدينة السلام”
- Bengali: “মদিনাতুল সালাম”
- Dutch: “Madinat al-Salam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة السلام”
- Hebrew: “מדינת א-סלאם”
- Hebrew: “עיר הבעת‘”
- Japanese: “マディナト・アル・バース”
- Persian: “مدینه البعث”
- Persian: “مدینه السلام”
- Polish: “Madinat as-Salam”
- Swedish: “Madinat al-Bath”
- Swedish: “Madinat al-Salam, Syrien”
- Swedish: “Madinat al-Salam”
- Urdu: “مدینہ البعث”
- Urdu: “مدینہ السلام”
- Vietnamese: “Madinat al-Salam”
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