Tall Rif‘at is a city in Syrian Arab Republic.
Population: 25,658
Latitude: 36° 28' 20.24" N
Longitude: 37° 05' 40.96" E
Saint Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (Classical Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܐ šamʻun dasṯonáyá, Ancient Greek: Συμεὼν ὁ στυλίτης Symeon Stylites, Arabic: سمعان العمودي semaan al aamoudi ) (c. 388 – 2 September 459) was a Syriac ascetic saint who ach…
Azaz (Arabic: أعزاز / ALA-LC: A‘zāz) is a small town in Syria, roughly 20 miles (30 kilometres) north-northwest of Aleppo. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Azaz had a population of 31,623 in the 2004 census.
Afrin (Arabic: عفرين / ALA-LC: ʿAfrīn or ʿIfrīn; Kurdish: Efrîn) is a district as well as a town in northern Syria. As a district (mantiqah) of the Syrian Arab Republic, it is part of the Aleppo Governorate. However, since 2012, the Syrian governme…
The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites (Arabic: كنيسة مار سمعان العمودي Kanīsat Mār Simʿān al-ʿAmūdī) is a historical building located about 30 km (19 mi) northwest of Aleppo, Syria. It is the oldest surviving Byzantine church, dating back to the 5th …
Al-Bab (Arabic: الباب / ALA-LC: al-Bāb) is a Syrian city administratively belonging to the Aleppo Governorate. Al-Bab is located northeast of Aleppo and has an area of 30 km². Al-Bab has an altitude of 471 meters.
The Ain Dara temple, located near the village of Ain Dara, northwest of Aleppo, Syria, is an Iron Age Syro-Hittite temple noted for its similarities to Solomon's Temple as described in the Hebrew Bible. According to the excavator Ali Abu Assaf, it w…
Tell Qaramel (also Tel Qaramel or Tel al-Qaramel, Arabic: تل القرامل) is a tell, or archaeological mound, located in the north of present-day Syria, 25 km north of Aleppo and about 65 km south of the Taurus mountains, adjacent to the river Quweiq.
…Kurd Mountains or Kurd-Dagh (Kurdish: Çiyayê Kurmênc, چیای کورمنج; Arabic: جبل الكرد Jabal al-Kurd; Turkish: Kurt Dağı), also called Aleppo Mountain (Arabic: جبل حلب Jabal Ḥalab), is a highland region in northwestern Syria and southeastern Turkey.…
Ein Dara (Arabic: عين دارة in kurdish Ayin Darê, also spelled Ain Dara or Ayn Darah) is a small village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Afrin District of the Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo. Nearby localities include…
Qaṭma, (Arabic: قطمة) or Qatmet Efrin is a village in northwestern Syria. Qatma lies between Afrin and Aleppo.
Arpad (probably modern Tell Rifaat, Syria) was an ancient Aramaean Syro-Hittite city located in north-western Syria, north of Aleppo. It became the capital of the Aramaean state of Bit Agusi established by Gusi of Yakhan in the 9th century BC.