Al-Nabek
Sign in to saveAn-Nabek or Al-Nabek () is a Syrian city administratively belonging to Rif Dimashq and the capital of the Qalamoun. It is located north of Damascus and south of Homs and has an altitude of . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), An-Nabek had a population of 32,548 in the 2004 census. The Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian (Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi) is located along the Anti-Lebanon Mountains near Nabek and dates back to at least the 6th century.
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Place details
- Locality
- النبك
- Region
- محافظة ريف دمشق
- Country
- سوريا
- Population
- 49,372
- Timezone
- Asia/Damascus
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- An-Nabek
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.other_name
- Al-Nabek, Nabk
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mar_Musa.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Syria
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Syria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Syria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- An Nabk Subdistrict
- Population
- +52502
- Elevation
- +1255
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Mar Musa.jpg
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An-Nabek or Al-Nabek () is a Syrian city administratively belonging to Rif Dimashq and the capital of the Qalamoun. It is located north of Damascus and south of Homs and has an altitude of . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), An-Nabek had a population of 32,548 in the 2004 census. The Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian (Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi) is located along the Anti-Lebanon Mountains near Nabek and dates back to at least the 6th century.
In the mid-19th century, the population was recorded as consisting mostly of Sunni Muslims, Syriac Catholic and Melkite Catholic Christians. In the mid-1940s, its 6,000 inhabitants were noted to be Sunni Muslims.