Syria
Syrian Desert
Homs Governorate

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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  • Type: City with 51,300 residents
  • Description: ancient city in Homs Governorate, Syria
  • Also known as: “Palmira”, “Palmira, Palmyre, Tadmor, Tadmur, Tamar, Tedmor, Palmyra”, “Tadmor”, and “Tadmur”
Photo: Quim Bahí, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temple of Bel and Temple of Baalshamin.

Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , sometimes also referred to as the "Temple of Baal", was an ancient temple located in Palmyra, Syria. The temple, consecrated to the Mesopotamian god Bel, worshipped at Palmyra in triad with the lunar god Aglibol and the sun god Yarhibol, formed the center of religious life in Palmyra and was dedicated in AD 32.

Archaeological site
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The was an ancient temple in the city of Palmyra, Syria, dedicated to the Canaanite sky deity Baalshamin. The temple's earliest phase dates to the late 2nd century BC; its altar was built in 115 AD, and the temple was substantially rebuilt in 131 AD.

Theater building
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The is a Roman theatre in ancient Palmyra in the Syrian Desert. The unfinished theatre dates back to the second-century CE Severan period.

Palmyra

Latitude
34.556° or 34° 33′ 22″ north
Longitude
38.281° or 38° 16′ 52″ east
Population
51,300
Elevation
418 metres (1,371 feet)
IATA airport code
PMS
United Nations Location Code
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.
  • Afrikaans: “Palmyra”
  • Afrikaans: “Tadmor”
  • Albanian: “Palmira”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Παλμύρα”
  • Arabic: “تدمر”
  • Armenian: “Պալմիրա”
  • Arpitan: “Palmyra”
  • Asturian: “Palmira”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palmira”
  • Bashkir: “Пальмира”
  • Bashkir: “Тадмор”
  • Basque: “Palmira”
  • Belarusian: “Пальміра”
  • Bengali: “পালমিরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Палмира”
  • Burmese: “ပါးလ်မိုင်ယာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Palmira”
  • Catalan: “Palmyra”
  • Catalan: “Tadmor”
  • Catalan: “Tedmor”
  • Catalan: “Παλμύρα”
  • Catalan: “תַּדְמֹר”
  • Catalan: “تدمر”
  • Cebuano: “Tadmur”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەدمور”
  • Chechen: “Пальмира”
  • Chinese: “Palmyra”
  • Chinese: “巴尔米拉”
  • Chinese: “帕尔米拉”
  • Chinese: “帕爾米拉”
  • Chinese: “帕米拉”
  • Chuvash: “Пальмира”
  • Croatian: “Palmira”
  • Czech: “Palmýra”
  • Dagbani: “Palmyra”
  • Danish: “Palmyra”
  • Dutch: “Palmyra (Syrie)”
  • Dutch: “Palmyra”
  • Dutch: “Tadmor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تدمر”
  • Esperanto: “Palmira”
  • Esperanto: “Palmyra”
  • Esperanto: “Tadmor”
  • Esperanto: “Παλμύρα”
  • Esperanto: “תַּדְמֹר”
  • Esperanto: “تدمر”
  • Estonian: “Palmyra”
  • Extremaduran: “Palmira”
  • Fanti: “Palmyra”
  • Farefare: “Palmyra”
  • Finnish: “Palmyra”
  • French: “Palmyre”
  • Galician: “Palmira”
  • Georgian: “პალმირა”
  • German: “Palmyra”
  • Greek: “«Νύμφη της Ερήμου»”
  • Greek: “Tadmor”
  • Greek: “Παλμύρα”
  • Hebrew: “תדמור”
  • Hindi: “पलमीरा”
  • Hindi: “पल्मायरा”
  • Hungarian: “Palmüra”
  • Hungarian: “Palmyra”
  • Hungarian: “Tadmur”
  • Icelandic: “Palmýra”
  • Ido: “Palmyra”
  • Indonesian: “Palmira”
  • Indonesian: “Tadmor”
  • Indonesian: “Tadmur”
  • Irish: “Palmyra”
  • Italian: “Palmira”
  • Japanese: “パルミラ”
  • Japanese: “パルミラ遺跡”
  • Kazakh: “Пальмира”
  • Korean: “팔미라”
  • Kurdish: “Palmîra”
  • Latin: “Palmyra”
  • Latvian: “Palmīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Palmyra”
  • Low German: “Palmyra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palmyra”
  • Macedonian: “Палмира”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Balmyra”
  • Maithili: “पलमेराक क्षेत्र”
  • Malagasy: “Palmyra”
  • Malay: “Tadmur”
  • Maltese: “Palmira”
  • Maltese: “Palmyra”
  • Maltese: “Tadmor”
  • Mazanderani: “پالمیرا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palmyra”
  • Mingrelian: “პალმირა”
  • Mossi: “Palmyra”
  • Nepali: “पलमेरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palmyra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palmyra”
  • Norwegian: “Palmyra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palmira”
  • Ossetian: “Пальмирæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਲਮੀਰਾ”
  • Persian: “پالمیرا”
  • Polish: “Palmira”
  • Polish: “Palmyra”
  • Polish: “Tadmor”
  • Polish: “Tadmur”
  • Portuguese: “Palmira”
  • Pushto: “پالمیرا”
  • Romanian: “Palmira”
  • Russian: “Пальмира”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱞᱢᱟᱭᱨᱟ”
  • Scots: “Palmira”
  • Serbian: “Палмира”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palmira”
  • Sicilian: “Palmira”
  • Slovak: “Palmýra”
  • Slovenian: “Palmira”
  • Spanish: “Palmira”
  • Swedish: “Palmyra”
  • Tamil: “பல்மைரா”
  • Tatar: “Palmira”
  • Thai: “แพลไมรา”
  • Turkish: “Palmira”
  • Twi: “Palmyra”
  • Ukrainian: “Пальміра”
  • Urdu: “تدمر”
  • Uzbek: “Palmira”
  • Vietnamese: “Palmyra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palmyra”
  • Welsh: “Palmyra”
  • Western Armenian: “Փալմիրա”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴尔米拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕米拉”

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