Basic Sciences
Basic Sciences is an university building in Damascus Governorate, Syria. Basic Sciences is situated nearby to the university جامعة دمشق - مجمع الهمك, as well as near the military installation Palestine Branch.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Palestine Branch and Bab ash-Sharqi.
Palestine Branch
Military installation
Far' Falastine, also known as Branch 235, was a prison operated by Military Intelligence Directorate of Ba'athist Syria under the charge of Brig. Gen. Kamal Hassan between 2017 and 2020, located in Damascus, notorious for accounts of torture, coercive interrogation, and deplorable conditions related by its former detainees. Palestine Branch is situated 410 metres south of Basic Sciences.
Bab ash-Sharqi
City gate
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Sharqi, also known as the Gate of the Sun, is one of the seven ancient city gates of Damascus, Syria. Its modern name comes from its location in the eastern side of the city. Bab ash-Sharqi is situated 1½ km north of Basic Sciences.
Bab Kisan
City gate
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Kisan is one of the seven ancient city-gates of Damascus, Syria. The gate, which is now located in the southeastern part of the Old City, was named in memory of a slave who became famous during a conquest by the Caliph Mu'awiya. Bab Kisan is situated 1¼ km northwest of Basic Sciences.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Damascus and Al Midan.
Damascus
Photo: علي الصمادي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. A city of immense historical importance, Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.
Al Midan
Town
Al-Midan is a neighbourhood and municipality in Damascus, Syria, south of the old walled city and near the modern city centre. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 177,456.
Beit Sahm
Village
Beit Sahem is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located Damascus's southeastern outskirts. Beit Sahm is situated 3 km southeast of Basic Sciences.
Basic Sciences
- Type: University building
- Categories: building and education
- Location: Damascus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.49519° or 33° 29′ 43″ northLongitude
36.32144° or 36° 19′ 17″ eastOpen location code
8G5RF8WC+3HOpenStreetMap ID
way 157423996OpenStreetMap feature
building=university
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In Other Languages
“Basic Sciences” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “العلوم الأساسية”
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