"Raqqa (Arabic: الرَّقة ar-Raqqah), also called Raqa, Rakka and ar-Raqqah, is a city in Syria on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 kilometres ...
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(99 miles) east of Aleppo. It is located 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria´s largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and bishopric Callinicum (formerly a Latin and now a Maronite Catholic titular see) was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, under the reign of Harun al-Rashid. It was also the capital of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017. With a population of 220,488 based on the 2004 official census, Raqqa is the sixth largest city in Syria." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020)
- Latitude35.950000762939
- Longitude39.016666412354
- Population177636