Al Mazzeh
Mezzeh is a municipality in Damascus, Syria, due west of Kafr Sousa. It lies to the southwest of central Damascus, along the Mazzeh highway. It started gaining importance when the French constructed Mezzeh Air Base, which was the main airport in Damascus until Damascus International Airport opened.Photo: Wesamt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: district of Damascus, Syria
- Also known as: “Mazzeh” and “Mezzeh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mezzeh prison and Mouasat University Hospital.
Mezzeh prison
Prison
Mezzeh prison is a now-defunct Syrian prison overlooking the capital, Damascus operated by Ba'athist Syria. Mezzeh is the name of a neighborhood in western Damascus.
Mouasat University Hospital
Hospital
Al-Mouwasat University Hospital was founded on 1958 in Damascus, Syria. It is mainly composed of 4 buildings; Administration Building, Emergency and Out-Patient Clinics Building and the Physician Residence Building, alongside those building there is the Cardiovascular Surgery Building.
Children’s Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Bassel.92, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The General Authority for Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital in Damascus, Syria. It is public hospital under the Syrian Ministry of Higher Education and affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dummar and Al Midan.
Dummar
Town
Photo: Wesamt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dummar is a municipal district of Damascus, Syria, located in the northwest of the city. It is the largest district of Damascus in terms of area. Dummar is situated 4 km north of Al Mazzeh.
Al Midan
Town
Al-Midan is a neighbourhood and municipality in Damascus, Syria, south of the old walled city and near the modern city centre. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 177,456. Al Midan is situated 5 km east of Al Mazzeh.
Sarouja
Town
Photo: Raghad.kabtool, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sarouja is a municipality of Damascus, Syria, due north of the Old Damascus. It was the first part of Damascus to be built outside the city walls in the 13th century. Sarouja is situated 5 km east of Al Mazzeh.
Al Mazzeh
- Categories: human settlement, municipality, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Damascus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.50216° or 33° 30′ 8″ northLongitude
36.24569° or 36° 14′ 45″ eastOpen location code
8G5RG62W+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 12506635862OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q3303175
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al Mazzeh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المزة (حي في دمشق)”
- Arabic: “المزة”
- Arabic: “المِزة”
- Arabic: “المِزه”
- Arabic: “حي المزة”
- Arabic: “مزة”
- Arabic: “مِزة”
- Azerbaijani: “Mezzeh”
- Catalan: “Al-Mizza”
- Catalan: “Mezze”
- Catalan: “Mezzé”
- Catalan: “Mezzeh”
- Chinese: “梅泽赫”
- Dutch: “Mazzeh”
- Dutch: “Mezzeh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المزه”
- Esperanto: “Mezzeh”
- French: “Mazzeh”
- French: “Mezzeh”
- Hebrew: “מאזה”
- Irish: “Mezzeh”
- Italian: “Al-Mazzah”
- Italian: “Al-Mizza”
- Japanese: “メッゼ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mezzeh”
- Persian: “المزه”
- Polish: “Al-Mazza”
- Russian: “Меззе”
- Russian: “Меззех”
- Russian: “Эль-Маза”
- Russian: “Эль-Мезза”
- Scots: “Mezzeh”
- Slovenian: “Mezeh”
- Spanish: “Mezzeh”
- Tajik: “Мазза”
- Ukrainian: “Меззе”
- Ukrainian: “Меззех”
- Vietnamese: “Mezzeh”
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