Syria
Orontes Valley
Hama Governorate

Hama

Hama is a city in with a population around 400,000. The city is a relatively conservative one dominated by hijabs and burkas. Much of the old city was destroyed in the Hama massacre in 1982.
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  • Type: City with 313,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hama Governorate, Syria
  • Also known as: “Epiphanea”, “Epiphania”, “Hamah”, “Ḥamāh”, and “Hamath”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Azm Palace and Nur al-Din Mosque.

Museum
Photo: TheRealHuldra, Public domain.
The is an 18th-century Ottoman-era palace in Hama, at the center of the city on the banks of the , about 400 meters south of the Hama Citadel.

Mosque
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Zengid-era in Hama, . It was founded by Nur al-Din in 1163-64 CE. It also contained a historic minbar from the same date, which has subsequently been relocated to the local Hama Museum.

Mosque
Photo: K. A. C. Creswell, Public domain.
The of Hama, is a in Hama, . It is located approximately 400 metres west of the citadel. Built in the 8th century CE, it was largely destroyed in the 1982 Hama massacre and subsequently rebuilt.

Hama

Latitude
35.1343° or 35° 8′ 4″ north
Longitude
36.7496° or 36° 44′ 59″ east
Population
313,000
Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SY QHM
Open location code
8G7R4PMX+PV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 572557865
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
170017
Wiki­data ID
Q173545
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Hama” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Hama”
  • Amharic: “ሐማት”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Έμάθ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Εμαθούς”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἐπιφάνεια”
  • Arabic: “بلد النواعير”
  • Arabic: “حماة”
  • Arabic: “حماه”
  • Arabic: “عروس العاصي”
  • Arabic: “مدينة أبي الفداء”
  • Arabic: “مدينة النواعير”
  • Arabic: “مدينة حماة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة حماه”
  • Armenian: “Համա”
  • Asturian: “Hama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həma”
  • Basque: “Hama”
  • Belarusian: “Хама”
  • Bengali: “হামা”
  • Breton: “Hama”
  • Bulgarian: “Хама”
  • Catalan: “Hama”
  • Catalan: “Hamah”
  • Catalan: “Hamat”
  • Catalan: “Hamath”
  • Cebuano: “Ḩamāh”
  • Central Kurdish: “حەما”
  • Chinese: “Hama”
  • Chinese: “哈馬”
  • Chinese: “哈马”
  • Croatian: “Hama”
  • Czech: “Hamá”
  • Danish: “Hama”
  • Dutch: “Hama”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حماة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حماه”
  • Esperanto: “Hama”
  • Esperanto: “Hamao”
  • Finnish: “Hama”
  • Finnish: “Hamah”
  • Finnish: “H̨amāh”
  • French: “Hama”
  • French: “Hamath”
  • Georgian: “ჰამა”
  • German: “Amathe”
  • German: “Amathus”
  • German: “Emath”
  • German: “Epiphaneia”
  • German: “Hama”
  • German: “Hamah”
  • German: “Hamath”
  • German: “Imat”
  • Greek: “Χάμα”
  • Gujarati: “હમા”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חמאת”
  • Hebrew: “חמאת”
  • Hebrew: “חמה”
  • Hebrew: “חמת צובא”
  • Hebrew: “חמת רבה”
  • Hindi: “हमा”
  • Hindi: “हामा”
  • Hungarian: “Hamá”
  • Hungarian: “Hamat, Hamát, Hamath”
  • Icelandic: “Hama”
  • Indonesian: “Epiphanea”
  • Indonesian: “Epiphaneia”
  • Indonesian: “Hamah”
  • Indonesian: “Hamat”
  • Interlingue: “Hama”
  • Irish: “Hama”
  • Italian: “Chamath”
  • Italian: “Hama”
  • Japanese: “ハマ”
  • Japanese: “ハマー”
  • Kabyle: “Ḥama”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hama”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾಮಾ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Hama”
  • Korean: “하마”
  • Kurdish: “Hema”
  • Latin: “Epiphanea”
  • Latin: “Epiphania”
  • Latvian: “Hama”
  • Lithuanian: “Chama”
  • Lithuanian: “Epifanėja”
  • Lithuanian: “Hama”
  • Malagasy: “Hama (Siria)”
  • Malagasy: “Hama”
  • Malay: “Hama, Syria”
  • Malay: “Hama”
  • Maltese: “Hama”
  • Maltese: “Hamah”
  • Marathi: “हमा”
  • Mazanderani: “حماه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hama”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰამა”
  • Moksha: “Гама”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hama”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamah”
  • Norwegian: “Hama”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܡܬ”
  • Persian: “حما”
  • Persian: “حماة”
  • Persian: “حمات”
  • Persian: “حماه”
  • Persian: “هماث”
  • Polish: “Hama”
  • Portuguese: “Hama”
  • Portuguese: “Hamate”
  • Pushto: “حما”
  • Romanian: “Hama”
  • Romanian: “Hamat”
  • Russian: “Хама”
  • Scots: “Hama”
  • Serbian: “Hama”
  • Serbian: “Хама”
  • Serbian: “حماة”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamath”
  • Silesian: “Hama”
  • Sinhala: “හමා”
  • Slovak: “Hamá”
  • Slovenian: “Hama”
  • Somali: “Xamaa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حماه”
  • Spanish: “Ecbatana de Siria”
  • Spanish: “Hama”
  • Spanish: “Hamath”
  • Swedish: “Hama”
  • Swedish: “Hamah”
  • Swiss German: “Imatu”
  • Tagalog: “Hama”
  • Tajik: “Ҳамо”
  • Tamil: “காமா”
  • Tatar: “Хәма”
  • Telugu: “హమా”
  • Thai: “Hama”
  • Thai: “Hamah”
  • Thai: “ฮะมาห์”
  • Thai: “ฮะมาฮ์”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “حما”
  • Turkish: “Hama”
  • Turkish: “Humus”
  • Uighur: “ھەما”
  • Ukrainian: “Гама”
  • Ukrainian: “Хама”
  • Urdu: “حماہ”
  • Urdu: “حماۃ”
  • Uzbek: “Hamo”
  • Venetian: “Hama”
  • Vietnamese: “Hama”
  • Vietnamese: “Kha mát”
  • Vietnamese: “Kha-mát”
  • Vietnamese: “Khamát”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hama”
  • Welsh: “Hama”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈马（叙利亚）”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈马”
  • Yue Chinese: “哈馬”

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