Qalatiyah (, also spelled ''Qlltia'', ''Kilitia'', or ''Kulleituliyeh'') is a village in western

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

in the

Wadi al-Nasara Wadi al-Nasara ( / ALA-LC: ''Wādī an-Naṣārá'' "Valley of Christians") is an area in western Syria that administratively belongs to the Homs Governorate, governorate of Homs. Most people in the area are Antiochian Greek Christians, Greek O ...

("Valley of the

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") and administratively belonging to the governorate of Homs. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qalatiyah had a population of 724 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly

Greek Orthodox Christian Greek Orthodox Church (, , ) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian Churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roma ...

s. The village has a

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* Populated places in Talkalakh District Eastern Orthodox Christian communities in Syria Christian communities in Syria {{HomsSY-geo-stub