Qalamoun Mountains
The Qalamoun Mountains are the northeastern portion of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, and they are northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus. They run from Barada River Valley in the southwest to the city of Hisyah in the northeast.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mar Sarkis.
Mar Sarkis
Monastery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mar Sarkis is a monastery, which is situated 1½ km northeast of Qalamoun Mountains.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maaloula and Jib’adin.
Maaloula
Village
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maaloula is a town in southwestern Syria. The town is located in the Rif Dimashq Governorate and is 56 km northeast of Damascus, and is built into the mountainside at an altitude of more than 1,500m.
Jib’adin
Village
Jubb'adin is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located northeast of Damascus in the Qalamoun Mountains. Jib’adin is situated 2½ km southwest of Qalamoun Mountains.
As-Sarkha
Village
Al-Sarkha, Bakh'ah or Bakh'a is a depopulated Syrian village in the Yabroud District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Al-Sarkha had a population of 1,405 in the 2004 census. As-Sarkha is situated 6 km northeast of Qalamoun Mountains.
Qalamoun Mountains
- Type: Rock
- Description: mountain in Syria
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.83477° or 33° 50′ 5″ northLongitude
36.53338° or 36° 32′ 0″ eastOpen location code
8G5RRGMM+W9OpenStreetMap ID
way 779120060OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rockWikidata ID
Q7265930
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Qalamoun Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال القلمون”
- Arabic: “جبل القلمون”
- Cebuano: “Jabal Qalamūn”
- Central Kurdish: “چیاکانی قەلەموون”
- Dutch: “Qalamoun Mountains”
- French: “Al-Qalamoun”
- French: “Qalamoun”
- Hebrew: “הרי קלמון”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qalamunfjella”
- Russian: “Каламун”
- Spanish: “Montañas de Calamún”
- Spanish: “Montañas de Qalamun”
- Swedish: “Jabal Qalamūn”
- Swedish: “Qalamoun”
- Venetian: “Monti de Qalamun”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mār Sarkīs and Mount Qalamun.
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