Qasr al Hayr al Gharbi

Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi is a desert castle or qasr located 80 km south-west of on the road. The castle is a twin palace of , built by the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 727 CE.
Wikipedia
  • Locality
  • …is also known as “Kasr el Her, Qasr al Hayir, Qasr al Hir, Qasr el Hair, Qasr el Haïr, Qaşr al Ḩāyir, Qaşr al Ḩīr, Qaşr al Ḩayr al Gharbī”
  • Description: villa in Syria

Qasr al Hayr al Gharbi

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Latitude
34.37951° or 34° 22′ 46″ north
Longitude
37.60836° or 37° 36′ 30″ east
Open location code
8G6V9JH5+R8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 519744119
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q2277692

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Qasr al Hayr al Gharbi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قصر الحير الغربي”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəsr əl-Heyr əl-Qərbi”
  • Bengali: “কাসর আল-হায়র আল-গারবি”
  • Catalan: “Kasr al Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Dutch: “Qasr al-Chair al-Garbi”
  • French: “Qasr al Hayr al Gharbi”
  • French: “Qasr el-Heir el-Gharbi”
  • Ga: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • German: “Qasr al Hayr al Gharbi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Hausa: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Hebrew: “קסר אל-חייר אל-ע’רבי”
  • Indonesian: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Italian: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Japanese: “アル＝ハイル・アル＝ガルビ城”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Norwegian: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Persian: “قصر الحیر غربی”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio do Cercado Oeste”
  • Portuguese: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Russian: “Каср аль-Хейр аль-Гарби”
  • Spanish: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Swedish: “Qasr al-Hayrach-Gharbi”
  • Turkish: “Kasrü’l-Hayri’l-Garbi”
  • Turkish: “Kasrü’l-hayri’l-garbî”
  • Twi: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi”
  • Ukrainian: “Каср аль-Хейр аль-Гарбі”
  • Urdu: “قصر الحیر الغربی”
  • Uzbek: “Qasr al-Hayr al-Gʻarbiy”
  • Uzbek: “Qasr al-Xayr al-GʻARBI”

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