Tabqa
Tabqa, formerly Al-Thawrah, is a city in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, approximately 55 kilometres west of Raqqa. Until the 1960s it had been a relatively small settlement. The city had a population of 69,425 as of the 2004 census.
- Type: City with 69,400 residents
- Description: town in Siria
- Also known as: “Al Tabaqah”, “Al-Tabbaqah”, “al-Tabqa”, “al-Tabqah”, “Al-Tabqah”, “al-Thawrah”, “Aţ Ţabaqah”, “At Tabqah”, “Aţ Ţabqah”, “At-Tabaqa”, “at-Taura”, “ath-Thawra”, “Madīnat ath Thawrah”, “Medinat Al Thawra”, “Revolution City”, “Ţabaqah”, “Thawrah”, “Мадинат-Эс-Саура”, “مدينة الثورة”, “مدينة الطبقة”, “アル＝タウラ”, and “革命市”
- Historically known as: “Al-Thawra”
Tabqa
- Categories: populated place in Syria and locality
- Location: Raqqa Governorate, Syrian Desert, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.8311° or 35° 49′ 52″ north
Longitude
38.5439° or 38° 32′ 38″ east
Population
69,400
Elevation
342 metres (1,122 feet)
Open location code
8G7WRGJV+FG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tabqa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الثورة”
- Arabic: “الطبقة”
- Arabic: “ثورة”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Սաուրա”
- Asturian: “Al-Tabqa”
- Basque: “Al-Tabqah”
- Bengali: “আল তাওয়া”
- Cebuano: “Al Tabqah”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەلتەورە”
- Chinese: “塔布卡”
- Chinese: “穆赫塔尔”
- Czech: “Tabka”
- Danish: “Al-Thawrah”
- Dutch: “At-Tabqah”
- Dutch: “Ath-Thawrah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الثوره”
- Finnish: “At-Tabqa”
- Finnish: “Ath-Thaura”
- French: “Al-Tabqah”
- French: “Ath-Tabqah”
- Georgian: “ელ-საურა”
- German: “at-Tabqa”
- German: “ath-Thaura”
- German: “Ath-Thaura”
- Greek: “Αλ-Θοράχ”
- Gujarati: “અલ-થાવરાહ”
- Hebrew: “א-ת׳ורה”
- Hindi: “अल-थावराह”
- Indonesian: “Al-Tabqah”
- Indonesian: “Al-Thawrah”
- Italian: “Tabqa”
- Japanese: “アッ゠サウーラ”
- Japanese: “アッ＝サウラ”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್-ತವ್ರಾಹ್”
- Korean: “아사우라”
- Korean: “알 트와르”
- Kurdish: “Tebqa”
- Latvian: “Altavra”
- Lithuanian: “Al Tavra”
- Malay: “Al-Thawrah”
- Marathi: “अल थवरा”
- Mazanderani: “الثوره”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Tabqah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Tabqah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Thawrah”
- Norwegian: “Al-Tabqah”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܒܩܗ”
- Persian: “الثوره”
- Polish: “As-Saura”
- Polish: “At-Tabka”
- Russian: “Ас-Савра”
- Russian: “Эс-Саура”
- Russian: “Эт-Табка”
- Scots: “Al-Tabqah”
- Scots: “Tabqa”
- Sinhala: “අල් -තවරාහ්”
- Spanish: “Al-Tabqa”
- Spanish: “Ath Tabqah”
- Swedish: “Al-Tabqah”
- Swedish: “Ath Thawrah”
- Tamil: “அல் -தவ்ரஹ்”
- Telugu: “అల్- తవరాహ్”
- Thai: “อัล ทาร์วราฮ์”
- Turkish: “Tabka”
- Ukrainian: “Ет-Табка”
- Urdu: “الثورہ”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Tabqah”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Thawrah”
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