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Maaloula
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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
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Maaloula, also known by its native name معلولا, is a village and archaeological site located in Syria. It is situated within the Ma'loula Subdistrict and the Rif-dimashq governorate. The settlement has a population of 2,762, though other records list it as 5,000. It stands at an elevation of 1,500 meters above sea level, with other measurements indicating 1,390 or 1,426 meters.
The village is designated as a Tentative World Heritage Site. It is located in the Asia/Damascus time zone, corresponding to UTC+02:00. Maaloula is referenced by 405 other encyclopedia articles.
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Place details
- Locality
- معلولا
- Region
- محافظة ريف دمشق
- Country
- سوريا
- Population
- 5,000
- Timezone
- Asia/Damascus
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Key facts
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- Maaloula
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- -
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- Town
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- -From Chapel of St Tekla - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
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- Overview of Maaloula, 2006
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- Syria
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- bottom
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- 250
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- Location in Syria
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- Country
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- Syria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Rif Dimashq
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- al-Qutayfah
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- Subdistrict
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- Maaloula
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maaloula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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