Qura al-Sham
Qura al-Sham is a Syrian village in the Qudsaya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qura al-Sham had a population of 1,067 in the 2004 census. Until 2024, the village was known as Qura al-Assad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,070 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Qura Al-Sham”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qudsaiya.
Qudsaiya
Town
Photo: waill.hamada.1, CC BY 3.0.
Qudsaya is a Syrian city in Rif Dimashq Governorate and the administrative centre of Qudsaya District. The city is located on the western slope of Mount Qasioun, 7 km west of Damascus. Qudsaiya is situated 8 km east of Qura al-Sham.
Qura al-Sham
- Categories: populated place in Syria and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.55772° or 33° 33′ 28″ northLongitude
36.13339° or 36° 8′ 0″ eastPopulation
1,070Open location code
8G5RH45M+39OpenStreetMap ID
node 325656586OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q16899048
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qura al-Sham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قرى الشام”
- Arabic: “قرى الشام”
- Dutch: “Qura al-Sham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قرى الشام”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قرى الشام”
- French: “Qura al-Sham”
- German: “Kura al-Sham”
- Persian: “قری الشام”
- Persian: “قری الشام”
- Polish: “Kura al-Sham”
- Russian: “Кура-аль-Шам”
- Vietnamese: “Qura al-Sham”
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