Ghouta
Sign in to saveGhouta ( / ALA-LC: Ḡūṭat Dimašq) is a countryside area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus along its eastern and southern rim.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Rif Dimashq Governorate
- Image
- Al Kiswah farms from mountain الكسوة - أم الغوطة الغربية - panoramio.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- History
- Ottoman period
- French colonial period
- Independent Syria
- Syrian Civil War
- List of settlements in Ghouta
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Ghouta ( / ALA-LC: Ḡūṭat Dimašq) is a countryside area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus along its eastern and southern rim.
thumb|View of Ghouta from the mountains surrounding the area thumb|right|A satellite view of Damascus in 2006
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ghouta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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