Palmyra
Palmyra was the only oasis in Syria and perhaps the only truly tourist town. Palmyra was known as Tadmor to the Syrians. Both meant the same thing - date palm.
- Type: City with 51,300 residents
- Description: ancient city in Homs Governorate, Syria
- Also known as: “«Νύμφη της Ερήμου»”, “Mint of Palmyra”, “Palmira, Palmyre, Tadmor, Tadmur, Tamar, Tedmor, Palmyra”, “Palmyra (Syrie)”, “Tadmor”, “Tadmur”, “Tedmor”, “Тадмор”, “תַּדְמֹר”, and “帕爾米拉”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Temple of Bel and Temple of Baalshamin.
Roman Theatre at Palmyra
Theater building
Palmyra
- Categories: ancient city, ruins, Ancient Greek archaeological site, historic site, and locality
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syrian Desert, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
SY PMS
Open location code
8G6WH74J+C9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Palmyra” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Palmyra”
- Albanian: “Palmira”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Παλμύρα”
- Arabic: “تدمر”
- Armenian: “Պալմիրա”
- Arpitan: “Palmyra”
- Asturian: “Palmira”
- Azerbaijani: “Palmira”
- Bashkir: “Пальмира”
- Basque: “Palmira”
- Belarusian: “Пальміра”
- Bengali: “পালমিরা”
- Bulgarian: “Палмира”
- Burmese: “ပါးလ်မိုင်ယာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Palmira”
- Cebuano: “Tadmur”
- Central Kurdish: “تەدمور”
- Chechen: “Пальмира”
- Chinese: “帕尔米拉”
- Chuvash: “Пальмира”
- Croatian: “Palmira”
- Czech: “Palmýra”
- Dagbani: “Palmyra”
- Danish: “Palmyra”
- Dutch: “Palmyra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تدمر”
- Esperanto: “Palmira”
- Esperanto: “Palmyra”
- Estonian: “Palmyra”
- Extremaduran: “Palmira”
- Fanti: “Palmyra”
- Farefare: “Palmyra”
- Finnish: “Palmyra”
- French: “Palmyre”
- Galician: “Palmira”
- Georgian: “პალმირა”
- German: “Palmyra”
- Greek: “Παλμύρα”
- Hebrew: “תדמור”
- Hindi: “पलमीरा”
- Hindi: “पल्मायरा”
- Hungarian: “Palmüra”
- Hungarian: “Palmyra”
- Hungarian: “Tadmur”
- Icelandic: “Palmýra”
- Ido: “Palmyra”
- 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: “Palmyra”
- 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: “Palmyra”
- 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”
- Tajik: “Тадмур”
- 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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