Tartous
Tartus, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, is the second largest port in Syria after Latakia and had a population of 115,769 in the 2004 census before the civil war.Photo: Ahmadac, Public domain.
- Type: City with 116,000 residents
- Description: city in Syria
- Also known as: “Antaradus”, “Tartoûs”, and “Tartus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tartus Museum and Tartus Port.
Tartus Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa was a Catholic cathedral in the city of Tartus, Syria. Erected during the 12th century, it has been described by historians as "the best-preserved religious structure of the Crusades." The cathedral was popular among pilgrims during the Crusades because Saint Peter was said to have founded a small church there dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Tartous
- Categories: big city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Tartus Governorate, Syrian Coast and Mountains, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.8936° or 34° 53′ 37″ northLongitude
35.8852° or 35° 53′ 7″ eastPopulation
116,000Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)United Nations Location Code
SY TTSOpen location code
8G6QVVVP+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 192296363OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Tartous” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Tartus”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αντιαράδος”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αντιάραδος”
- Arabic: “طرطوس”
- Arabic: “مدينة طرطوس”
- Armenian: “Տարտուս”
- Asturian: “Tartus”
- Azerbaijani: “Tərtus”
- Bashkir: “Тартус”
- Basque: “Tartus”
- Belarusian: “Тартус”
- Bengali: “টারটাস”
- Bengali: “তারতুস”
- Bulgarian: “Тартус”
- Catalan: “Tartus”
- Catalan: “Tartús”
- Cebuano: “Tartouss (kapital sa lalawigan sa Siria)”
- Cebuano: “Tartouss”
- Central Kurdish: “تەرتووس”
- Chinese: “他圖斯”
- Chinese: “塔尔图斯”
- Chinese: “塔爾圖斯”
- Croatian: “Tartus”
- Czech: “Tartús”
- Danish: “Tartus”
- Dutch: “Tartous”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طرطوس”
- Esperanto: “Tartus”
- Estonian: “Tartus”
- Estonian: “Ţarţūs”
- Finnish: “Tartus”
- French: “Tartous”
- French: “Tortose”
- Georgian: “ტარტუსი”
- German: “Tartus”
- Greek: “Ταρτούς”
- Gujarati: “ટાર્ટસ”
- Hebrew: “טרטוס”
- Hindi: “टर्तुस”
- Hindi: “टार्टुस”
- Hindi: “तरतूस”
- Hungarian: “Tartúsz”
- Icelandic: “Tartus”
- Indonesian: “Tartus”
- Irish: “Tartus”
- Italian: “Tartus”
- Japanese: “タルトゥース”
- Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ಟಸ್”
- Kannada: “ತಾರ್ತುಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Тартус”
- Korean: “타르투스”
- Kurdish: “Tartûs”
- Latin: “Tortosa”
- Latvian: “Tartusa”
- Latvian: “Tartūsa”
- Lithuanian: “Tartusas”
- Malagasy: “Tartus”
- Malay: “Tartus”
- Marathi: “टॉर्टुस”
- Mazanderani: “طرطوس”
- Mingrelian: “ტარტუსი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tartus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tartus”
- Norwegian: “Tartus”
- Ossetian: “Тартус”
- Persian: “طرطوس”
- Polish: “Tartus”
- Portuguese: “Tartuce”
- Portuguese: “Tartus”
- Romanian: “Tartus”
- Russian: “Тартус”
- Scots: “Tartus”
- Serbian: “Тартус”
- Silesian: “Tartus”
- Sinhala: “ටාර්ටස්”
- Slovenian: “Tartus”
- Spanish: “Tartus”
- Spanish: “Tartús”
- Swedish: “Tartus”
- Tajik: “Тартус”
- Tamil: “டார்ட்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “టార్టాస్”
- Thai: “ฏ็อรฏูส”
- Tunisian Arabic: “طرطوس”
- Turkish: “Tartus”
- Uighur: “تەرتۇس”
- Ukrainian: “Тартус”
- Urdu: “طرطوس”
- Uzbek: “Tartus”
- Venetian: “Tartus”
- Vietnamese: “Tartus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tartus”
- Yue Chinese: “他圖斯”
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