Bosra

Bosra, officially known Busra al-Sham, is an ancient town in . Due to being a major archaeological site, it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Town with 19,700 residents
  • Description: town in Daraa, Syria
  • Also known as: “Bosra aš Šam”, “Bosra aš-Šam”, “Bosra ash Sham”, “Bosra ash-Sham”, “Bosra ech Cham”, “Bosra ech Châm”, “Bosra Eski Sham”, “Bozra”, “bsry”, “Busra”, “Busra aš Šam”, “Busra aš-Šam”, “Busra ash Sham”, “Busra ash-Sham”, “Busra Eski Sham”, “Busra Sham”, “Busrah ash Sham”, “Buşrah ash Shām”, “Busrana”, “Nova Trajana Bostra”, “Trajana Bostra”, “Бостра”, “Бус­ра-эш-Шам”, “בוסטרה”, “بُصرى”, “بصرى Buṣrā”, “بصریٰ الشام”, “بوسرا”, “बुसरा”, and “古代都市ボスラ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bosra Amphitheatre and Ancient City of Bosra.

Theater building
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The Roman Theatre at Bosra is a large Roman theatre…

Archaeological site
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The is an archaeological site located in the city of Bosra, .

Mosque
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The Al-Omari Mosque of Bosra is a in the Roman…

Bosra

Latitude
32.5191° or 32° 31′ 9″ north
Longitude
36.4806° or 36° 28′ 50″ east
Population
19,700
Elevation
850 metres (2,789 feet)
Open location code
8G4RGF9J+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 573510767
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
171126
Wiki­data ID
Q272680
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Bosra” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bosra”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βόστρα”
  • Arabic: “Buşrá”
  • Arabic: “بصرى الشام”
  • Arabic: “بصرى”
  • Armenian: “Բոսրա”
  • Asturian: “Bosra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Büsra”
  • Basque: “Bosra”
  • Belarusian: “Босра”
  • Bengali: “বুশরা”
  • Bengali: “বুসরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Босра”
  • Burmese: “ဘော့စ်ရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bosra”
  • Catalan: “Bosrà”
  • Cebuano: “Buşrá ash Shām”
  • Chinese: “布斯拉”
  • Croatian: “Bosra”
  • Czech: “Bosra”
  • Dagbani: “Bosra”
  • Dutch: “Bosra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بصرى”
  • Finnish: “Bosra”
  • French: “Bosra”
  • Georgian: “ბოსრა”
  • Georgian: “ბუსრა”
  • German: “Bosra”
  • German: “Bostra”
  • German: “Busra”
  • Greek: “Μπόσρα”
  • Hebrew: “בוסרה”
  • Hindi: “बुसरा अल शाम”
  • Hungarian: “Boszra”
  • Indonesian: “Busra”
  • Italian: “Bosra”
  • Japanese: “ブスラ”
  • Japanese: “ボスラ”
  • Korean: “부스라”
  • Latin: “Bostra”
  • Lithuanian: “Bosra”
  • Maithili: “बोस्राक पुरान सहर”
  • Malay: “Bushra”
  • Malayalam: “ബോസ്ര”
  • Maltese: “Bosra”
  • Nepali: “बोस्राको पुरानो सहर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bosra”
  • Norwegian: “Bosra”
  • Oriya: “ବୋସରା”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੋਸਰਾ”
  • Persian: “بصری”
  • Polish: “Bosra”
  • Portuguese: “Bosra”
  • Portuguese: “Bostra”
  • Romanian: “Bosra”
  • Russian: “Босра”
  • Russian: “Бусра”
  • Serbian: “Босра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bosra”
  • Slovak: “Bosra”
  • Slovenian: “Bosra”
  • Spanish: “Bosra”
  • Swedish: “Bosra”
  • Tajik: “Бусро”
  • Turkish: “Busra”
  • Ukrainian: “Босра”
  • Ukrainian: “Бусра”
  • Urdu: “بصرى”
  • Urdu: “بصریٰ”
  • Uzbek: “Busro”
  • Vietnamese: “Bosra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bosra”
  • Western Frisian: “Bosra”

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