Maaloula

Ma'loula Subdistrict, Syria

Maaloula (Western Neo-Aramaic, Maʿlūlā) 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 the now depopulated Bakha.

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