Syria
Orontes Valley
Homs Governorate

Homs

Homs is the third largest city in . Much of the city was destroyed or damaged during the Syrian Civil War of 2011-2024, particularly during the Siege of Homs.
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  • Type: City with 653,000 residents
  • Description: city in western Syria
  • Also known as: “Hems”, “Hims”, “Houmousse”, and “Hums”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque and Al Nuri Great Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: Zozo2kx, Public domain.
The is a in Homs, , located in a park along Hama Street in ash-Shuhada Square. The mosque is dedicated to Khalid ibn al-Walid, an Arab military commander who led the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 7th century following the decisive Battle of Yarmouk, which put an end to Byzantine rule in Syria.

Mosque
Photo: Zozo2kx, Public domain.
The Great Mosque of al-Nuri also called al-Nouri Mosque, is a in Homs, . It is situated off ash-Shouhada street, adjacent to the city's historical roofed souqs.

Church
Photo: Shaza Askar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Mary of the Holy Belt Cathedral is a Syriac Orthodox cathedral in Homs, . The first structure on the site was completed in 59 AD, and the present structure dates from 1852. It is the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Homs and Hama.

Homs

Latitude
34.7333° or 34° 44′ north
Longitude
36.7167° or 36° 43′ east
Population
653,000
Elevation
508 metres (1,667 feet)
IATA airport code
QHS
United Nations Location Code
SY HMS
Open location code
8G6RPPM8+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 572549095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
169577
Wiki­data ID
Q131301
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Homs” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Homs”
  • Albanian: “Homs”
  • Albanian: “Homsi”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἔμεσα” (historical)
  • Arabic: “Ḩimş”
  • Arabic: “اميسا”
  • Arabic: “جمص”
  • Arabic: “حمص”
  • Arabic: “مدينة حمص”
  • Armenian: “Հոմս”
  • Asturian: “Homs”
  • Avaric: “ХІумс”
  • Avaric: “ХӀумс”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hims”
  • Azerbaijani: “Homs”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hüms”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xoms”
  • Basque: “Hims”
  • Basque: “Homs”
  • Belarusian: “Гомс”
  • Belarusian: “Хомс”
  • Bengali: “হিমস”
  • Bosnian: “Homs”
  • Breton: “Homs”
  • Bulgarian: “Емеса”
  • Bulgarian: “Хомс”
  • Catalan: “Èmesa”
  • Catalan: “Emessa”
  • Catalan: “Emissa”
  • Catalan: “Hims”
  • Catalan: “Homs”
  • Cebuano: “Homs”
  • Central Kurdish: “حومس”
  • Chechen: “Хьамс”
  • Chechen: “Хьимс”
  • Chechen: “Хьомс”
  • Chinese: “Homs”
  • Chinese: “荷姆斯”
  • Chinese: “霍姆斯”
  • Chuvash: “Хомс”
  • Croatian: “Homs”
  • Czech: “Emesa”
  • Czech: “Homs”
  • Danish: “Hims”
  • Danish: “Homs”
  • Dutch: “Homs”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حمص”
  • Esperanto: “Emesa”
  • Esperanto: “Èmesa”
  • Esperanto: “Emisa”
  • Esperanto: “Hims”
  • Esperanto: “Homs”
  • Esperanto: “Homso”
  • Estonian: “Emesa”
  • Estonian: “Hims”
  • Estonian: “Ḩimş”
  • Estonian: “Homs”
  • Finnish: “Emesa”
  • Finnish: “Homs”
  • French: “Émèse”
  • French: “Homs”
  • Georgian: “ჰომსი”
  • German: “Emesa”
  • German: “Emisa”
  • German: “Ḥimṣ”
  • German: “Homs”
  • Greek: “Έμεσα”
  • Greek: “Έμεσσα”
  • Greek: “Χομς”
  • Gujarati: “હોમ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “אמסה”
  • Hebrew: “חומס”
  • Hindi: “होम्स”
  • Hindi: “हौम्स”
  • Hungarian: “Homsz”
  • Icelandic: “Homs”
  • Ido: “Homs”
  • Indonesian: “Himsh”
  • Indonesian: “Homs”
  • Interlingue: “Homs”
  • Irish: “Homs”
  • Italian: “Emesa”
  • Italian: “Emessa”
  • Italian: “Homs”
  • Japanese: “エメサ”
  • Japanese: “ヒムシュ”
  • Japanese: “ヒムス”
  • Japanese: “ホムス”
  • Javanese: “Homs”
  • Kabyle: “Ḥumṣ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Homs”
  • Kannada: “ಹೋಮ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Xoms”
  • Kazakh: “Хомс”
  • Kazakh: “حومس”
  • Korean: “에메사”
  • Korean: “호므스”
  • Korean: “홈스”
  • Korean: “힘스”
  • Kurdish: “Hims”
  • Latin: “Emesa”
  • Latvian: “Himsa”
  • Latvian: “Homsa”
  • Limburgan: “Homs”
  • Lithuanian: “Chomsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Emesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Himsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Homsas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Homs”
  • Malagasy: “Homs”
  • Malay: “Hims”
  • Malay: “Homs”
  • Maltese: “Emesa”
  • Maltese: “Homs”
  • Marathi: “होम्स”
  • Mazanderani: “حمص”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Homs”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰომსი”
  • Moksha: “Гомс”
  • Mongolian: “Хомс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Emesa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hims”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Homs”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Homs”
  • Norwegian: “Homs”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܡܨ”
  • Ossetian: “Хомс”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਿਮਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੋਮਸ”
  • Persian: “امسا”
  • Persian: “حمص”
  • Polish: “Emesa”
  • Polish: “Hims”
  • Polish: “Homs”
  • Portuguese: “Emesa”
  • Portuguese: “Emessa”
  • Portuguese: “Hims”
  • Portuguese: “Homs”
  • Pushto: “حمص”
  • Romanian: “Homs”
  • Russian: “Химс”
  • Russian: “Хомс”
  • Russian: “Эмеса”
  • Russian: “Эмесса”
  • Scots: “Homs”
  • Serbian: “Emesa”
  • Serbian: “Homs”
  • Serbian: “Хомс”
  • Serbian: “حمص”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Emesa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hims”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Homs”
  • Sicilian: “Homs”
  • Silesian: “Hims”
  • Sindhi: “حمص”
  • Sinhala: “හෝම්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Homs”
  • Slovenian: “Homs”
  • Somali: “Ximsa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حمص”
  • Spanish: “Emesa”
  • Spanish: “Homs”
  • Swahili: “Homs”
  • Swedish: “Emesa”
  • Swedish: “Hims”
  • Swedish: “Himş”
  • Swedish: “Homs”
  • Tagalog: “Homs”
  • Tajik: “Ҳимс”
  • Tamil: “உம்சு”
  • Tamil: “ஹோம்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Хомс”
  • Telugu: “హోమ్స్”
  • Thai: “Homs”
  • Thai: “เอเมอซา”
  • Thai: “ฮอมส์”
  • Thai: “ฮิมศ์”
  • Turkish: “Hıms”
  • Turkish: “Humus, Suriye”
  • Turkish: “Humus”
  • Uighur: “ھىمس”
  • Ukrainian: “Емеса”
  • Ukrainian: “Хомс”
  • Urdu: “حمص”
  • Uzbek: “Hims”
  • Venetian: “Homs”
  • Veps: “Homs”
  • Vietnamese: “Himş”
  • Vietnamese: “Homs”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Homs”
  • Welsh: “Homs”
  • Western Armenian: “Հոմս”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍姆斯（叙利亚）”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍姆斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “荷姆斯”

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