Syria
Hauran
Daraa Governorate

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 ech Cham”, “Bosra ech Châm”, “Bosra Eski Sham”, “Bostra”, “bsry”, “Busra”, “Busra ash-Sham”, “Busra Sham”, “Busrah ash Sham”, and “Buşrah ash Shām”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ancient City of Bosra and Mosque of Omar.

Archaeological site
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The is an archaeological site located in the city of Bosra, . The site illustrates the Roman, Byzantine and Muslim civilizations, and was inscribed by UNESCO on the list of World Heritage Sites in 1980.

Mosque
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The Al-Omari Mosque of Bosra is a in the Roman of Bosra, , a World Heritage Site. The mosque was founded by Caliph Umar, who led the Muslim conquest of Syria in 636 CE, and it was completed in 721 CE by Caliph Yazid II.

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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Satellite Map

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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 Buṣrā”
  • Arabic: “بصرى الشام”
  • Arabic: “بصرى”
  • Arabic: “بُصرى”
  • Armenian: “Բոսրա”
  • Asturian: “Bosra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Büsra”
  • Basque: “Bosra”
  • Belarusian: “Босра”
  • Bengali: “বুশরা”
  • Bengali: “বুসরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Босра”
  • Burmese: “ဘော့စ်ရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bosra”
  • Catalan: “Bosrà”
  • Catalan: “Bostra”
  • Catalan: “Busra”
  • Cebuano: “Buşrá ash Shām”
  • Chinese: “布斯拉”
  • Croatian: “Bosra”
  • Czech: “Bosra”
  • Dutch: “Bosra”
  • Dutch: “Bostra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بصرى”
  • Finnish: “Bosra”
  • Finnish: “Bostra”
  • French: “Bosra”
  • French: “Bostra”
  • Georgian: “ბოსრა”
  • Georgian: “ბუსრა”
  • German: “Bosra”
  • German: “Bostra”
  • German: “Busra”
  • Greek: “Μπόσρα”
  • Hebrew: “בוסטרה”
  • Hebrew: “בוסרה”
  • Hindi: “बुसरा अल शाम”
  • Hindi: “बुसरा”
  • Hungarian: “Boszra”
  • Indonesian: “Bushra”
  • Indonesian: “Busra”
  • Italian: “Bosra”
  • Italian: “Bostra”
  • Japanese: “ブスラ”
  • Japanese: “ボスラ”
  • Japanese: “古代都市ボスラ”
  • Korean: “부스라”
  • Latin: “Bostra”
  • Lithuanian: “Bosra”
  • Maithili: “बोस्राक पुरान सहर”
  • Malay: “Bushra”
  • Malayalam: “ബോസ്ര”
  • Maltese: “Bosra”
  • Maltese: “Bostra”
  • Nepali: “बोस्राको पुरानो सहर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bosra”
  • Norwegian: “Bosra”
  • Oriya: “ବୋସରା”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੋਸਰਾ”
  • Persian: “بصری”
  • Persian: “بوسرا”
  • Polish: “Bosra”
  • Portuguese: “Bosra”
  • Portuguese: “Bostra”
  • Romanian: “Bosra”
  • Russian: “Босра”
  • Russian: “Бостра”
  • Russian: “Бус­ра-эш-Шам”
  • Russian: “Бусра”
  • Serbian: “Босра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bosra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bostra”
  • Slovak: “Bosra”
  • Slovenian: “Bosra aš Šam”
  • Slovenian: “Bosra aš-Šam”
  • Slovenian: “Bosra ash Sham”
  • Slovenian: “Bosra ash-Sham”
  • Slovenian: “Bosra”
  • Slovenian: “Bostra”
  • Slovenian: “Busra aš Šam”
  • Slovenian: “Busra aš-Šam”
  • Slovenian: “Busra ash Sham”
  • Slovenian: “Busra ash-Sham”
  • Slovenian: “Busra”
  • Spanish: “Bosra”
  • Spanish: “Bostra”
  • Swedish: “Bosra”
  • Swedish: “Bostra”
  • Swedish: “Bozra”
  • Swedish: “Busra ash-Sham”
  • Swedish: “Busra Eski Sham”
  • Swedish: “Busrana”
  • Swedish: “Nova Trajana Bostra”
  • Swedish: “Trajana Bostra”
  • Tajik: “Бусро”
  • Turkish: “Busra”
  • Ukrainian: “Босра”
  • Ukrainian: “Бусра”
  • Urdu: “بصرى”
  • Urdu: “بصریٰ الشام”
  • Urdu: “بصری”
  • Urdu: “بصریٰ”
  • Uzbek: “Busro”
  • Vietnamese: “Bosra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bosra”
  • Western Frisian: “Bosra”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bosra”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.