Babella
Babbila is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located on the southern outskirts of Damascus to the east of the Yarmouk Camp.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 50,900 residents
- Description: town in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
- Also known as: “Babbila”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palestine Branch.
Palestine Branch
Military installation
Far' Falastine, also known as Branch 235, was a prison operated by Military Intelligence Directorate of Ba'athist Syria under the charge of Brig. Gen. Kamal Hassan between 2017 and 2020, located in Damascus, notorious for accounts of torture, coercive interrogation, and deplorable conditions related by its former detainees. Palestine Branch is situated 3 km north of Babella.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit Sahm and Aqraba.
Beit Sahm
Village
Beit Sahem is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located Damascus's southeastern outskirts.
Aqraba
Village
Aqraba is a Syrian village located in the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of Rif Dimashq Governorate. Aqraba had a population of 6,799 in the 2004 census.
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 4 km northwest of Babella.
Babella
- Categories: city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.46842° or 33° 28′ 6″ northLongitude
36.33105° or 36° 19′ 52″ eastPopulation
50,900Open location code
8G5RF89J+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 3887032462OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q2877655
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Babella” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ببيلا”
- Armenian: “Բաբբիլա”
- Asturian: “Babbila”
- Azerbaijani: “Bəbila”
- Chinese: “巴比拉”
- Dutch: “Babbila”
- French: “Bab Bila”
- French: “Babbila”
- French: “Babella”
- German: “Babella”
- Hebrew: “בבילא”
- Japanese: “バベッラー”
- Korean: “바벨라”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Babbila”
- Persian: “ببیلا”
- Polish: “Babbila”
- Russian: “Бабелла”
- Scots: “Babbila”
- Swedish: “Babila, Syrien”
- Swedish: “Bouapla”
- Ukrainian: “Баббіла”
- Vietnamese: “Babbila”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include بلدية ببيلا and محكمة ببيلا.
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