Tell al-Nabi Mando ( ar, تل النبي مندو), known in archaeological literature as Tell Nebi Mend and also known as
Qadesh ( ar, قادش) after the Bronze-Age city which stood at almost the same location, is a village in central
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, administratively part of the
Homs Governorate
Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in central Syria. Its area differs in various sources, from to . It is thus geographical ...
, located southwest of
Homs
Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...
. It is situated on the eastern banks of the
Orontes River
The Orontes (; from Ancient Greek , ) or Asi ( ar, العاصي, , ; tr, Asi) is a river with a length of in Western Asia that begins in Lebanon, flowing northwards through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Turkey.
...
. Nearby localities include
al-Houz
Al-Houz ( ar, الحوز, also spelled al-Huz) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Situated at the southern edge of Lake Qattinah, nearby localities include Aqrabiyah to the south ...
to the north,
Kafr Mousa
Kafr Mousa ( ar, كفر موسى, also spelled Kafr Musa) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located south of Homs. Nearby localities include Ghassaniya to the north, Damina al-Gharbiya to the east, al- ...
to the northeast,
Arjoun
Arjoun ( ar, عرجون, Arjūn, also spelled Arcun or Arjoon), is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Nearby localities include Aqrabiyah to the southwest, al-Qusayr to the southea ...
to the east,
al-Qusayr to the southeast,
Zita al-Gharbiyah
Zita al-Gharbiyah ( ar, زيتا الغربية, also spelled Zeita) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs and immediately north of the border with Lebanon. Nearby localities incl ...
to the southwest,
al-Aqrabiyah
Aqrabiyah ( ar, العقربية, also spelled Akrabieh or Aqrabieh; also known as al-Buwaydah al-Gharbiyah) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs and immediately east and north of t ...
to the southwest and
al-Naim
Al-Na'im ( ar, الناعم; also spelled al-Naeem) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs and northwest of al-Qusayr. Just east of the border with Lebanon and on the western shores ...
to the northwest. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tell al-Nabi Mando had a population of 1,068 in the 2004 census.
[General Census of Population and Housing 2004](_blank)
. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. The village is adjacent to the ancient site of Qadesh, a name sometimes also used for the village, which abuts it to the north. It is an
Alawite
The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isl ...
village.
References
Populated places in al-Qusayr District
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