Jaramana

Jaramana () is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in the Ghouta plain. Its location, 3 kilometers southeast of the Syrian capital, makes it a bustling town in the greater Damascus metropolitan area, with a mostly Christian and Druze population.

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Vinony's link graph records 379 inbound references to Jaramana, and connects out to Shahba, Markaz Rif Dimashq and Iraq.

It is catalogued under topics including Cities in Syria, Druze communities in Syria and Palestinian refugee camps in Syria.

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Place details

Locality: جرمانا
Region: محافظة ريف دمشق
Country: سوريا
Population: 99,999
Timezone: Asia/Damascus

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Key facts

Settlement.utc_offset_DST: +3
Settlement.official_name: Jaramana
Settlement.native_name: جرمانا
Settlement.native_name_lang: ar
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Jaramana City Council.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 250px
Settlement.image_caption: Jaramana city council
Settlement.pushpin_map: Syria
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Syria
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Syria
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Rif Dimashq
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Markaz Rif Dimashq

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Wikidata facts

Country: Syria
Located in: Jaramana Subdistrict
Population: 114363
Area: 5.95
Elevation: 670
Image: Skyline of Jaramana Refugee Camp.jpg

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Demographics
Religious buildings
References
Bibliography
External links

==History== Jaramana was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century and noted it was "a district of the Ghautah of Damascus."

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