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Al-Dimas

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Also known as Ad-Dimas

Al-Dimas (), also known as Ad-Dimas, is a town in Syria, located west of the capital city of Damascus. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 14,574 in the 2004 census.

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Place details

Locality
الصبورة
Region
محافظة ريف دمشق
Country
سوريا
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Al-Dimas
Settlement.native_name
الديماس
Settlement.image_caption
View
Settlement.seal_size
63px
Settlement.pushpin_map
Syria
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
250
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Syria
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Rif Dimashq
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Qudsaya
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Subdistrict
Settlement.subdivision_name3
al-Dimas
Settlement.settlement_type
Town
Settlement.population_as_of
2004 census
Settlement.population_total
14574
Settlement.timezone
EET

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
village
Official name
الديماس
Country
Syria
Population
14574
Elevation
1276
Time zone
UTC+03:00
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native label
الديماس
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • References

Al-Dimas (), also known as Ad-Dimas, is a town in Syria, located west of the capital city of Damascus. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 14,574 in the 2004 census.

Al-Dimas is the location where a Canadian peacekeeping aircraft crashed after being shot down by three Syrian surface-to-air missiles on August 9, 1974.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Dimas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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