Palmyra

Palmyra was the only oasis in and perhaps the only truly tourist town. Palmyra was known as Tadmor to the Syrians. Both meant the same thing - date palm.
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  • City with about 51,300 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 420 metres (1,370 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code PMS
  • Description: ancient city in Homs Governorate, Syria
  • Also known as
    “Mint of Palmyra”
    “Palmira”
    “Palmira, Palmyre, Tadmor, Tadmur, Tamar, Tedmor, Palmyra”
    “Tadmor”
    “Tadmur”
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Theater building
The is a Roman theatre in ancient Palmyra in the Syrian Desert.

Palmyra

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Latitude
34.556° or 34° 33′ 22″ north
Longitude
38.281° or 38° 16′ 52″ east
UN/LOCODE
SY PMS
Open location code
8G6WH74J+C9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 573543011
Open­Street­Map feature
historic = yes
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
163808
Wiki­data ID
Q5747

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Palmyra” goes by many names.
PalmyraAfrikaans
TadmorAfrikaans
PalmiraAlbanian
ΠαλμύραAncient Greek (to 1453)
تدمرArabic
ՊալմիրաArmenian
PalmyraArpitan
PalmiraAsturian
PalmiraAzerbaijani
ПальмираBashkir
ТадморBashkir
PalmiraBasque
ПальміраBelarusian
পালমিরাBengali
ПалмираBulgarian
ပါးလ်မိုင်ယာမြို့Burmese
PalmiraCatalan
PalmyraCatalan
TadmorCatalan
TedmorCatalan
ΠαλμύραCatalan
תַּדְמֹרCatalan
تدمرCatalan
TadmurCebuano
تەدمورCentral Kurdish
ПальмираChechen
巴尔米拉Chinese
帕尔米拉Chinese
帕爾米拉Chinese
ПальмираChuvash
PalmiraCroatian
PalmýraCzech
PalmyraDagbani
PalmyraDanish
PalmyraDutch
Palmyra (Syrie)Dutch
TadmorDutch
تدمرEgyptian Arabic
PalmiraEsperanto
PalmyraEsperanto
TadmorEsperanto
ΠαλμύραEsperanto
תַּדְמֹרEsperanto
تدمرEsperanto
PalmyraEstonian
PalmiraExtremaduran
PalmyraFanti
PalmyraFarefare
PalmyraFinnish
PalmyreFrench
PalmiraGalician
პალმირაGeorgian
PalmyraGerman
«Νύμφη της Ερήμου»Greek
TadmorGreek
ΠαλμύραGreek
תדמורHebrew
पाल्मुराHindi
PalmüraHungarian
PalmyraHungarian
TadmurHungarian
PalmýraIcelandic
PalmyraIdo
PalmiraIndonesian
TadmorIndonesian
TadmurIndonesian
PalmyraIrish
PalmiraItalian
パルミラJapanese
パルミラ遺跡Japanese
ПальмираKazakh
팔미라Korean
PalmîraKurdish
PalmyraLatin
PalmīraLatvian
PalmyraLithuanian
PalmyraLow German
PalmyraLuxembourgish
ПалмираMacedonian
BalmyraMainfränkisch
पलमेराक क्षेत्रMaithili
PalmyraMalagasy
TadmurMalay
PalmiraMaltese
PalmyraMaltese
TadmorMaltese
پالمیراMazanderani
PalmyraMin Nan Chinese
პალმირაMingrelian
PalmyraMossi
पलमेराNepali
PalmyraNorwegian
PalmyraNorwegian Bokmål
PalmyraNorwegian Nynorsk
PalmiraOccitan (post 1500)
ПальмирæOssetian
ਪਾਲਮੀਰਾPanjabi
پالمیراPersian
PalmiraPolish
PalmyraPolish
TadmorPolish
TadmurPolish
PalmiraPortuguese
پالمیراPushto
PalmiraRomanian
ПальмираRussian
ᱯᱟᱞᱢᱟᱭᱨᱟSantali
PalmiraScots
ПалмираSerbian
PalmiraSerbo-Croatian
PalmiraSicilian
PalmýraSlovak
PalmiraSlovenian
PalmiraSpanish
PalmyraSwedish
ТадмурTajik
பல்மைராTamil
PalmiraTatar
แพลไมราThai
PalmiraTurkish
PalmyraTwi
ПальміраUkrainian
تدمرUrdu
PalmiraUzbek
PalmyraVietnamese
PalmyraWaray (Philippines)
PalmyraWelsh
ՓալմիրաWestern Armenian
巴尔米拉Wu Chinese
帕米拉Yue Chinese

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