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Bara

One of the former "Dead Cities" in northwestern Syria

Cityarchaeological site village populated place in SyriaQ310049

Also known as Al-Bara

Country: Syria
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1.Stated in GeoNamesRetrieved 2015-04-06
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Located in: Ihsim Subdistrict

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Bara or al-Bara is one of the former "Dead Cities" in northwestern Syria. It is located in the Zawiya Mountain approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) north from Hama and approx. 80 km southwest from Aleppo. Al-Bara is also a town in Ariha district. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Bara had a population of 10,353 in the 2004 census. Its population is mostly Sunni Muslim.

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Part of: Dead Cities
part of UNESCO World Heritage Site
Contains: church building founded: 6th century
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Sources
1.id.lib.harvard.edu/images/8001544219/catalogRetrieved 2021-06-16
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Different from: Bara criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items

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8 identifiers linking Bara across the web's reference databases

35.6833, 36.5333OpenStreetMap ↗

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