Qaţanā is a city in Syrian Arab Republic.
Population: 18,511
Latitude: 33° 26' 11.26" N
Longitude: 36° 04' 39.25" E
The Bawabet Dimashq (Arabic: بوابة دمشق) (Damascus Gate), the largest restaurant in the world, is a family owned restaurant in Damascus, Syria, that opened in 2002. The structure cost $40 million to construct and is owned by Shaker al Samman. The r…
In the 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid Hezbollah militants captured three IDF soldiers; Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Sawaid, while they were patrolling the security fence along the border with Lebanon, and took them across the border. It is n…
The Yalbugha Mosque (Arabic: جامع يلبغا, jāmi‘ yalbughā) was a 13th-century mosque on the Barada river in Damascus, Syria. It was built by the Mamluks in 1264 or by Yalbughā al-Yahyāwī in 1346–47.:286 During the reign of Ibrahim Pasha (1832–1840) i…
Maktab Anbar (Arabic: مكتب عنبر) (Anbar Office) is an old house in the center of Old Damascus near the Umayyad Mosque and a short distance from the Street Called Straight. The house was built as a private residence by a local Jewish notable Mr. Anb…
Qaraoun is a Lebanese village, 85 km from Beirut, known for its Lake Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley formed by the El Wauroun Dam built in 1959. It is an ecologically fragile zone in the Rashaya District south of the Beqaa Governorate. The village lies …
Kamid al lawz (or Kamid el-Loz) is located in West Bekaa, Lebanon.
Bab al-Jabiya (Arabic: باب الجابية; Gate of the Water Trough) or the Gate of Jupiter is one of the eight ancient city-gates of Damascus, Syria. Bab al-Jabiya was the main entrance on the city's west side. The gate opens on Medhat Pasha Souq, which …
Al-Assad Library (Arabic: مكتبة الأسد الوطنية) is the national library of Syria. It was established in Damascus in 1984 'to gather all books and daily issues in addition to all kinds of literature connected with our "ancestral cultural legacy", the…
The Sinan Pasha Mosque (Arabic: جامع السنانية, transliteration: Jami al-Sinaniya, Turkish: Sinan Paşa Camii) is an early Ottoman-era mosque in Damascus, Syria, located along Suq Sinaniyya Street.
Khan Sulayman Pasha (Arabic: خان سليمان باشا) is a large khan in the Old City of Damascus.
The Darwish Pasha Mosque (Arabic: جامع درويش باشا, transliteration: Jami Darwish Pasha, Turkish: Derviş Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century mosque in Damascus, Syria.
Bab al-Faradis (Arabic: باب الفراديس; "The Gate of the Paradise") or Bab al-Amara is one of the eight ancient city-gates of Damascus, Syria. One of the city's northern gates, it was named "the paradise gate" in the Roman age because it was surround…
Al-Shaghour (Arabic: الشاغور) is a municipality and a neighborhood located in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, south and east of the Old City, and east of al-Midan. Al-Shaghour is one of the oldest recorded neighborhoods in the city. Parts o…
Al-Salihiyah (Arabic: الصالحية) is a municipality and a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. It lies to the north and northwest of the old walled city of Damascus about 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) from the Citadel at the foot of Mount Qasioun. The quarter …
Al-Adiliyah Madrasa (Arabic: المدرسة العادلية) is a 13th-century madrasah located in Damascus, Syria.
Sarouja (Arabic: ساروجة) is a municipality of Damascus, Syria, due north of the Old City.
Sabaa Bahrat Square (Arabic: ساحة السبع بحرات / ALA-LC: sāḥat as-Saba‘a Baḥrāt; which means "square of the Seven Fountains") is a large and important square in Damascus, Syria. Many important official buildings and ministries are located in the are…
Beit al-Mamlouka (Arabic: بيت المملوكة) is a luxury boutique hotel located in the old city of Damascus, Syria. It was established in 2005 in the city's oldest borough, the Christian quarter of Bab Touma ("St.