Qalaat al-Madiq

Qalaat al-Madiq is a town and medieval fortress in northwestern , administratively part of the , located northwest of . It is situated in the al-Ghab plain, on the eastern bank of the .
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: Citadel in Hama, Syria
  • Also known as: “Kal’at al Madik”, “Kalaat Moudik”, “Kalat el Mudik”, “Qal’al al-Mudiq”, “Qal’at al-Madiq”, “Qal`at al Maḑīq”, “Qal`at al Mudiq”, “Qal`at al Muḑīq”, “Qal`at el Madhiq”, “Qal`at el Mudiq”, “Qalaat el Moudiq”, and “Qalat el-Mudiq”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Apamea.

Photo: Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0.
is an ancient Hellenistic and Roman city situated on the right bank of the , in the northwest of modern . Founded under the name Pella as a Macedonian military settlement following the Wars of the Diadochi, it was established as a fortified city around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who renamed it after his wife, Apama.

Qalaat al-Madiq

Latitude
35.42013° or 35° 25′ 13″ north
Longitude
36.39265° or 36° 23′ 34″ east
Open location code
8G7RC9CV+33
Open­Street­Map ID
way 171784870
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q7265911
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Qalaat al-Madiq” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة المضيق‎”
  • Arabic: “قلعة المضيق”
  • Belarusian: “Калаат эль-Мадык”
  • Catalan: “Afamiya”
  • Catalan: “Qàlat al-Madiq”
  • Chinese: “卡拉阿馬迪克”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة المضيق”
  • French: “Qal’at al-Mudiq”
  • German: “Kalaat al-Madik”
  • German: “Qal’at al-Mudiq”
  • Hebrew: “קלעת אל-מודיק”
  • Japanese: “カルアト・アル＝マディーク”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qalaat al-Madiq”
  • Persian: “قلعة المضیق”
  • Persian: “قلعه المضیق”
  • Polish: “Kalat al-Madik”
  • Russian: “Калъат-эль-Мудик”
  • Spanish: “Qal’at al-Mudiq”
  • Turkish: “Medik Kalesi”

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