Middle East
Syria
Hauran

Golan Heights

Quneitra is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the in south-western . It is situated in a high valley in the at 1,010 metres above sea level.
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  • Type: City with 153 residents
  • Description: Quineitra is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria
  • Also known as: “Al Qunaytirah”, “Al-Quneitra”, “El Kuneitra”, “El Qnaïtra”, “El Quneitra”, “Kuneïtra”, “Qhaitra”, “Qnaïtra”, “Qnayţra”, “Qunaitira”, “Qunayţirah”, “Qunayţurah”, and “Quneitra”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Bental/Tal Al-Gharam and 1204 Mt. Avital.

Peak
Mount Bental (Arabic: جبل بنطل, جبل الغرام / ALA-LC: Jabal al-Gharam / "Mountain of Lust" "Jabal Bental"; Hebrew: הר בנטל, Har Bental, "Mount Bental" is a dormant volcano in the North-Eastern part of the , It extends to an elevation of 1,171 Meters above sea level.

Peak
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is a peak.

Ruins
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is a ruins.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ein Zivan and Merom Golan.

Village
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is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the northern , under the jurisdiction 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.

Village
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is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the Western . The settlement was established as a kibbutz after Israel occupied the area in the Six Day War in 1967.

Golan Heights

Latitude
33.1244° or 33° 7′ 28″ north
Longitude
35.823° or 35° 49′ 23″ east
Population
153
Elevation
942 metres (3,091 feet)
Open location code
8G5Q4RFF+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 567053507
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
173334
Wiki­data ID
Q576368
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Yue Chinese—“Golan Heights” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Къунетрэ”
  • Albanian: “Kuneitire”
  • Arabic: “القنيطرة (سورية)”
  • Arabic: “القنيطرة، سوريا”
  • Arabic: “القنيطرة”
  • Arabic: “القنيطره (سوريا)”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Կունեյտրա”
  • Asturian: “Quneitra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Qüneytirə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qüneytirə”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Кунейтра”
  • Catalan: “Quneitra”
  • Cebuano: “Al Qunayţirah”
  • Central Kurdish: “قونەیترە”
  • Chinese: “古奈特拉”
  • Chinese: “库奈特拉”
  • Chinese: “庫奈特拉”
  • Croatian: “Kunejtra”
  • Czech: “Kunejtra”
  • Danish: “Al-Qunaytirah”
  • Dutch: “Quneitra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قنیطره”
  • Esperanto: “Al-Kunajtira”
  • Finnish: “Kuneitra”
  • French: “Qouneitra”
  • Georgian: “ელ-კუნეიტრა”
  • German: “al-Kuneitra”
  • German: “Kuneitra”
  • German: “Quneitra”
  • Greek: “Κουνέιτρα”
  • Hebrew: “קוניטרה”
  • Hungarian: “el-Kunítra”
  • Icelandic: “Quneitra”
  • Indonesian: “Quneitra”
  • Italian: “Quneitra”
  • Japanese: “アル゠クネイトラ”
  • Japanese: “クネイトラ”
  • Javanese: “Quneitra”
  • Korean: “알쿠네이트라”
  • Korean: “쿠네이트라”
  • Kurdish: “Qinêtra”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuneitra”
  • Malay: “Quneitra”
  • Mingrelian: “ელ-კუნეიტრა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Quneitra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Quneitra”
  • Norwegian: “Quneitra”
  • Ossetian: “Алкунайтрæ”
  • Ossetian: “Хъуынетрæ”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Кунейтрæ”
  • Persian: “قنیطره”
  • Polish: “Al-Kunajtira”
  • Portuguese: “Quneitra”
  • Romanian: “Quneitra”
  • Russian: “Аль-Кунайтра”
  • Russian: “Эль-Кунейтра”
  • Scots: “Quneitra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قنیطره”
  • Spanish: “Quneitra”
  • Swedish: “al-Qunaytira”
  • Swedish: “Al-Qunaytira”
  • Tajik: “Қунайтира”
  • Thai: “อัลกุนัยฏิเราะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Kuneytire”
  • Uighur: “قۇنەيتىرە”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Кунейтра”
  • Urdu: “القنیطرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Qunaytira”
  • Yue Chinese: “古奈特拉”

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