Middle East
Syria
Ar-Raqqah Governorate

Qal’at Ja’bar

Qal'at Ja'bar is a castle on the left bank of in , . Its site, formerly a prominent hill-top overlooking the Valley, is now an island in Lake Assad that can only be reached by an artificial causeway.
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: castle in Syria
  • Also known as: “Caber Kalesi” and “قلعة جعبر”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tabqa.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Tabqah, is a city in , , approximately 55 kilometres west of . Until the 1960s it had been a relatively small settlement.

Qal’at Ja’bar

Latitude
35.89732° or 35° 53′ 50″ north
Longitude
38.48105° or 38° 28′ 52″ east
Open location code
8G7WVFWJ+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1464325519
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Wiki­data ID
Q1857888
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qal’at Ja’bar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة جعبر”
  • Armenian: “Ջաբեր ամրոց”
  • Azerbaijani: “Caber qalası”
  • Bulgarian: “Джабар”
  • Chinese: “賈比爾城堡”
  • Czech: “Kalat Džaabar”
  • Dutch: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
  • French: “Caber Kalesi”
  • French: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
  • German: “Burg Jabar”
  • German: “Burg Jaber”
  • German: “Dscha’Bar”
  • German: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
  • German: “Qal’At Ja’Bar”
  • German: “Qalat Dschabar”
  • German: “Qalʿat Dschaʿbar”
  • Indonesian: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
  • Italian: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
  • Japanese: “ジャアバル城”
  • Japanese: “ジャベル・カレスィ”
  • Macedonian: “Kабер”
  • Macedonian: “Кабер”
  • Persian: “قلعه جعبر”
  • Polish: “Kalat Dżabir”
  • Polish: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
  • Russian: “Джабер”
  • Spanish: “Qal’at Ja’bar”
  • Turkish: “Caber Kalesi”
  • Urdu: “قلعہ جعبر”
  • Uzbek: “Jaber qalʻasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Qal’at Ja’bar”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Qal’at Ja’bar”. Photo: Eleman, CC BY-SA 3.0.