Maaloula
Sign in to saveMaaloula (; ) is a town in southwestern Syria. The town is located in the Rif Dimashq Governorate and is 56 km northeast of Damascus, and is built into the mountainside at an altitude of more than 1,500m. It is known as one of three remaining villages where Western Neo-Aramaic is spoken, the other two being the nearby smaller villages of Jubb'adin and Bakha
Weather now
cached 12h ago13°clear sky
28% 0.3 m/s OpenWeatherMap
7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- معلولا
- Region
- محافظة ريف دمشق
- Country
- سوريا
- Population
- 5,000
- Timezone
- Asia/Damascus
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Maaloula
- Settlement.other_name
- -
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- -From Chapel of St Tekla - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Overview of Maaloula, 2006
- 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
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- معلولا
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Ma'loula Subdistrict
- Population
- +2762
- Elevation
- +1500
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Maaloula 01.jpg
Show 1 more fact
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
16 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Civil war
- Demographics
- Language
- Monasteries
- Saint Sarkis Monastic Complex
- Convent of Saint Thecla
- Other monasteries
- Virgin Mary statue
- Climate
- Sister city
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Maaloula (; ) is a town in southwestern Syria. The town is located in the Rif Dimashq Governorate and is 56 km northeast of Damascus, and is built into the mountainside at an altitude of more than 1,500m. It is known as one of three remaining villages where Western Neo-Aramaic is spoken, the other two being the nearby smaller villages of Jubb'adin and Bakha
==Etymology== is said to derive from the Aramaic word , meaning "entrance". The name is romanized as Maaloula, Ma'loula, Maalula, Ma'lula, Malula. However, "Maaloula" is the most common.