Tartous

Tartus, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of , is the second largest port in Syria after and had a population of 115,769 in the 2004 census before the civil war.
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Ahmadac, Public domain.
  • City with about 116,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (70 feet)
  • Description: city in Syria
  • Also known as
    “Antaradus”
    “Tartus”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tartus Museum and Tartus Port.
Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Museum
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa was a Catholic cathedral in the city of Tartus, .
xslim, CC BY 2.0.

Tartous

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Latitude
34.8936° or 34° 53′ 37″ north
Longitude
35.8852° or 35° 53′ 7″ east
UN/LOCODE
SY TTS
Open location code
8G6QVVVP+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 192296363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
163345
Wiki­data ID
Q174916

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Tartous” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tartus”
  • Amharic: “ታርቱስ”
  • 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: “Tartús”
  • Cebuano: “Tartouss (kapital sa lalawigan sa Siria)”
  • Cebuano: “Tartouss”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەرتووس”
  • Chinese: “塔尔图斯”
  • Chinese: “塔爾圖斯”
  • Croatian: “Tartus”
  • Czech: “Tartús”
  • Danish: “Tartus”
  • Dutch: “Tartous”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طرطوس”
  • Esperanto: “Tartus”
  • Estonian: “Ţarţūs”
  • Finnish: “Tartus”
  • French: “Tartous”
  • French: “Tortose”
  • Georgian: “ტარტუსი”
  • German: “Tartus”
  • Greek: “Ταρτούς”
  • Gujarati: “ટાર્ટસ”
  • Hausa: “Tartus”
  • 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”
  • Japanese: “タルトゥス”
  • Javanese: “Tartus”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ಟಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ತಾರ್ತುಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тартус”
  • Kirghiz: “Тартус”
  • Korean: “타르투스”
  • Kurdish: “Tartûs”
  • Latin: “Tortosa”
  • Latvian: “Tartūsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tartusas”
  • Malagasy: “Tartus”
  • Malay: “Tartus”
  • Marathi: “टॉर्टुस”
  • Mazanderani: “طرطوس”
  • Mingrelian: “ტარტუსი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tartus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tartus”
  • Norwegian: “Tartus”
  • Oromo: “Tartus”
  • Ossetian: “Тартус”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਰਤੁਸ”
  • Persian: “طرطوس”
  • Polish: “Tartus”
  • Portuguese: “Tartuce”
  • Portuguese: “Tartus”
  • Pushto: “ترطوس”
  • Romanian: “Tartus”
  • Russian: “Тартус”
  • Scots: “Tartus”
  • Serbian: “Тартус”
  • Silesian: “Tartus”
  • Sinhala: “ටාර්ටස්”
  • Slovak: “Tartus”
  • Slovenian: “Tartus”
  • Somali: “Tartus”
  • Spanish: “Tartús”
  • Swahili: “Tartus”
  • Swedish: “Tartus”
  • Tajik: “Тартус”
  • Tamil: “டார்ட்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Тартус”
  • Telugu: “టార్టాస్”
  • Thai: “ฏ็อรฏูส”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “طرطوس”
  • Turkish: “Tartus”
  • Uighur: “تەرتۇس”
  • Ukrainian: “Тартус”
  • Urdu: “ترطوس”
  • Urdu: “طرطوس”
  • Uzbek: “Tartus”
  • Venetian: “Tartus”
  • Vietnamese: “Tartus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tartus”
  • Yue Chinese: “他圖斯”

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