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Name | Metro population (millions)1 |
حلب (Ḥalab)2 | 3.5 |
دمشق (Dimashq)3 | 2.8 |
Name | Alternate names |
Ebla | Tel Mardikh |
'Ugarit | Ras Shamra |
Mari | Tell Hariri |
Tudmur | Tadmur, Tadmor, Palmyra |
Bosra | Busra ash-Sham, Nova Traiana Bostra, Nova Trajana Bostra |
Ḥamāh | Hama, Hamath |
Qal'at al-Ḥiṣn | Qal'at al-Hosn, Krak des Chevaliers, Crac des Chevaliers |
Qal'at Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn | Qal'at Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn, Qal'at Salah el-Din, Qalaat Salah ed-Din, Sahyun, Saone, Fortress of Saladin |
1. world-gazetteer.com, Iraq cities page, accessed 9/4/2010.
2. Or Aleppo.
3. Or Damascus or Δαμασκός (Damascós).