Syria
Hauran
Damascus Governorate

Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of . A city of immense historical importance, Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.
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  • Type: City with 1,410,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Syria
  • Also known as: “Al-Shām”, “Cham”, “Dammeseq”, “Dimashk”, “Dimashk al-Shām”, “Dimashq”, “Dimeshki esh Sham”, “Dimishq”, “Esh Shām”, “Jasmine city”, and “Sham city”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Umayyad Mosque and A’zm Palace.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of , is one of the largest and oldest in the world.

Castle
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Al-Azm Palace is a palace in Damascus, , built in 1749. Located north of Al-Buzuriyah Souq in the Ancient City of Damascus, the palace was built in 1749 to be the private residence for As'ad Pasha al-Azm, the governor of Damascus; during the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, it housed the French Institute.

Castle
Photo: Mewes, Public domain.
The is a large medieval fortified palace and citadel in Damascus, . It is part of the Ancient City of Damascus, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ein Tarma and Zamalka.

Village
, also spelled Ayn Tarma or Ain Terma, is a suburb of Damascus in , located 3 kilometers east of Old Damascus, just north of the Barada River, within an area called the Eastern Ghouta.

Village
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is a town of Damascus in , located 3.5 kilometers east-northeast of Old Damascus. It is administratively a part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the .

Town
is a neighbourhood and municipality in Damascus, , south of the old walled city and near the modern city centre. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 177,456.

Damascus

Latitude
33.5131° or 33° 30′ 47″ north
Longitude
36.3096° or 36° 18′ 35″ east
Population
1,410,000
Elevation
701 metres (2,300 feet)
IATA airport code
DAM
United Nations Location Code
SY DAM
Open location code
8G5RG875+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1091272140
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
170654
Wiki­data ID
Q3766
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Damascus” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Damaskus”
  • Achinese: “Damsyik”
  • Achinese: “Dimasq”
  • Adyghe: “Дамаск”
  • Afrikaans: “Damaskus”
  • Albanian: “Damasku”
  • Amharic: “ደማስቆ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Δαμασκός”
  • Arabic: “الشام”
  • Arabic: “دمشق”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الياسمين”
  • Aragonese: “Domás”
  • Armenian: “Դամասկոս”
  • Arpitan: “Damas”
  • Arpitan: “Damâsc”
  • Assamese: “ডামাস্কাছ”
  • Asturian: “Damascu”
  • Avaric: “Димишкъ”
  • Awadhi: “दमिश्क”
  • Azerbaijani: “Damascus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəməşq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Diməşq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şam”
  • Balinese: “Damaskus”
  • Banjar: “Damsyik”
  • Bashkir: “Дамаск”
  • Bashkir: “Димәшҡ”
  • Basque: “Damasko”
  • Belarusian: “Дамаск”
  • Bengali: “দামাস্কাস”
  • Bengali: “দামেস্ক”
  • Betawi: “Damsik”
  • Bosnian: “Damask”
  • Breton: “Damask”
  • Bulgarian: “Дамаск”
  • Burmese: “ဒမားစကပ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Damasc”
  • Cebuano: “Damascus”
  • Central Bikol: “Damascus”
  • Central Kurdish: “دیمەشق”
  • Chechen: “Димашкъ”
  • Chinese: “Damascus”
  • Chinese: “大馬士革”
  • Chinese: “大马士革 / 大馬士革”
  • Chinese: “大马士革”
  • Chinese: “沙姆”
  • Church Slavic: “Дамаскъ”
  • Chuvash: “Дамаск”
  • Cornish: “Damask”
  • Corsican: “Damascu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dimeşq”
  • Croatian: “Damask”
  • Czech: “Damašek”
  • Danish: “Damaskus”
  • Dhivehi: “ދިމިޝްޤު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şam”
  • Dutch: “Damascus”
  • Eastern Mari: “Дамаск”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دمشق”
  • Erzya: “Дамаск ош”
  • Esperanto: “Damasko”
  • Estonian: “Damaskus”
  • Extremaduran: “Damascu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Damascus”
  • Finnish: “Damaskos”
  • Finnish: “Damaskus”
  • French: “Damas”
  • French: “Dimashq ach-Cham”
  • French: “Dimashq”
  • Fulah: “Damascus”
  • Galician: “Damasco”
  • Georgian: “დამასკი”
  • Georgian: “დამასკო”
  • German: “Damaskus”
  • Gilaki: “دمشق”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌼𐌰𐍃𐌺𐍉/Damasko”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌼𐌰𐍃𐌺𐍉”
  • Greek: “Δαμασκός”
  • Guarani: “Ndamáko”
  • Gujarati: “દમાસ્કસ”
  • Haitian: “Damas”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Damascus”
  • Hausa: “Damascus”
  • Hausa: “Sham”
  • Hawaiian: “Kamakeko”
  • Hebrew: “דמשק”
  • Hindi: “अस-शाम”
  • Hindi: “दमिश्क”
  • Hindi: “दमिश्क़”
  • Hungarian: “Damaszkusz”
  • Icelandic: “Damaskus”
  • Ido: “Damascus”
  • Ido: “Damaskus”
  • Iloko: “Damascus”
  • Indonesian: “Damaskus”
  • Ingush: “Дамаск”
  • Interlingua: “Damasco”
  • Interlingue: “Damascus”
  • Irish: “An Damaisc”
  • Italian: “Damasco”
  • Japanese: “ダマス”
  • Japanese: “ダマスカス”
  • Japanese: “ダマスクス”
  • Japanese: “ダマスコス”
  • Javanese: “Damaskus”
  • Kabardian: “Дамаск”
  • Kabiyè: “Tamasɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Dimecq”
  • Kalaallisut: “Damascus”
  • Kannada: “ಡಮಾಸ್ಕಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ದಮಿಶ್ಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Damashq”
  • Kashmiri: “دمشق”
  • Kazakh: “Дамаск”
  • Kazakh: “Димашқ”
  • Kazakh: “Шам шаһары”
  • Kazakh: “Шам”
  • Kikuyu: “Damascus”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Damasiko”
  • Kirghiz: “Дамаск”
  • Komering: “Damaskus”
  • Korean: “다마스쿠스”
  • Korean: “디마슈크”
  • Korean: “디마스끄”
  • Korean: “앗샴”
  • Kurdish: “Şam”
  • Ladino: “Damask”
  • Ladino: “Damesek”
  • Latin: “Damascus”
  • Latvian: “Damaska”
  • Lezghian: “Дамаск”
  • Ligurian: “Damasco”
  • Limburgan: “Damascus”
  • Lingala: “Damas”
  • Literary Chinese: “大馬士革”
  • Lithuanian: “Damaskas”
  • Livvi: “Damask”
  • Lombard: “Damasch”
  • Low German: “Damaskus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Damaskus”
  • Macedonian: “Дамаск”
  • Maithili: “दमासकस”
  • Maithili: “दमास्कसक पुरान सहर”
  • Malagasy: “Damaskosy”
  • Malagasy: “Damaskôsy”
  • Malay: “Damsyik”
  • Malay: “دمشق”
  • Malayalam: “ദമാസ്കസ്”
  • Maltese: “Damask”
  • Maltese: “Damasku”
  • Manx: “y Damask”
  • Maori: “Ramahiku”
  • Marathi: “दमास्कस”
  • Mazanderani: “دمشق”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “دمشق”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi-mā-sáik”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Damascus”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Damascus”
  • Minangkabau: “Damaskus”
  • Mingrelian: “დამასკო”
  • Moksha: “Дамаск”
  • Mongolian: “Дамаск”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ديمشق”
  • N'Ko: “ߘߌ߬ߡߊ߬ߛߑߞߎ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߘߡߊߛ”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߊ߯ߡߌ߲߫ ߛߎ ߘߏ߫ ߟߋ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߊ߯ߡߌ߲߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߛ߭ߊ߯ߡߌ߲߫”
  • Navajo: “Tóniyęęshí”
  • Nepali: “दमास्कस”
  • Nepali: “दमिश्क”
  • Newari: “दमास्कस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Damaskus”
  • Northern Luri: “دمشق”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Damaskus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Damaskus”
  • Norwegian: “Damaskus”
  • Novial: “Damaskus”
  • Nyanja: “Damascus”
  • Obolo: “Damasikọs”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Damasc”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܪܡܣܘܩ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Damascus”
  • Oriya: “ଡାମାସକସ”
  • Ossetian: “Дамаск”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਮਸ਼ਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Damasco”
  • Persian: “دمشق”
  • Picard: “Damasch”
  • Piemontese: “Damasch”
  • Polish: “Damaszek”
  • Portuguese: “Damasco”
  • Pushto: “د مشق”
  • Pushto: “دمشق”
  • Quechua: “Dimashq”
  • Romanian: “Damasc”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дамаск”
  • Russian: “Дамаск”
  • Rusyn: “Дамаск”
  • Samogitian: “Damaskos”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱟᱢᱟᱥᱠᱚᱥ”
  • Saraiki: “دمشق”
  • Sardinian: “Damasco”
  • Scots: “Damascus”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Damascus”
  • Serbian: “Дамаск”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Damask”
  • Shona: “Damascus”
  • Sicilian: “Damascu”
  • Silesian: “Damaszek”
  • Sindhi: “دمشق”
  • Sinhala: “දමස්කස්”
  • Slovak: “Damask”
  • Slovenian: “Damask”
  • Somali: “Dimishiq”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دمشق”
  • Spanish: “Damasco”
  • Sundanese: “Damaskus”
  • Swahili: “Dameski”
  • Swedish: “Damaskus”
  • Swiss German: “Damaskus”
  • Tagalog: “Damasco”
  • Tagalog: “Damascus”
  • Tagalog: “Damasko”
  • Tajik: “Димашқ”
  • Tajik: “Димишқ”
  • Talysh: “Dehli”
  • Talysh: “Dəməšk”
  • Tamil: “டமஸ்கஸ்”
  • Tamil: “டமாஸ்கஸ்”
  • Tamil: “திமிஷ்கு”
  • Tatar: “Dimäşq”
  • Tatar: “Димәшкъ”
  • Telugu: “డమాస్కస్”
  • Telugu: “డామస్కస్”
  • Thai: “ดามัสกัส”
  • Tibetan: “དྷ་མ་སི་ཁོ་སི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Damaskus”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “دمشق”
  • Turkish: “Şam şehri”
  • Turkish: “Şam”
  • Turkmen: “Damask”
  • Twi: “Damascus”
  • Twi: “Damaskɔs”
  • Udmurt: “Дамаск”
  • Uighur: “دەمەشىق”
  • Ukrainian: “Дамаск”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Damask”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Damaskus”
  • Urdu: “دمشق”
  • Urdu: “شہر دمشق”
  • Uzbek: “Damashq”
  • Venetian: “Damasco”
  • Veps: “Damask”
  • Vietnamese: “Damas”
  • Vietnamese: “Damascus”
  • Vlax Romani: “Damascus”
  • Volapük: “Dimäjk”
  • Walloon: “Damasse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Damascus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Damasko”
  • Welsh: “Damascus”
  • Western Armenian: “Դամասկոս”
  • Western Frisian: “Damaskus”
  • Western Panjabi: “دمشق”
  • Wu Chinese: “大马士革”
  • Yakut: “Дамаскус”
  • Yiddish: “דמשק”
  • Yoruba: “Dàmáskù”
  • Yue Chinese: “大馬士革”
  • Zeeuws: “Damaskus”
  • Zhuang: “Daqmajciqge”
  • Zulu: “i-Damascus”
  • “Damasche”
  • “Damasco”
  • “Damaskos”
  • “ma tomo Tamaku”

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