Village in Hama, Syria

Al Rusafa

Al-Rusafa is a Syrian village located in the Masyaf Subdistrict in Masyaf District, located west of Hama and about 10 kilometers southwest of Masyaf.

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Every way there

Aleppo → Al Rusafa
736 km · quickest by air, 6h 5m · $270–410
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Damascus → Al Rusafa
755 km · quickest by air, 6h 50m · $310–470
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Beirut → Al Rusafa
829 km · quickest by air, 6h 12m · $290–440
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The field note

What is in and around Al Rusafa, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Al Rusafa has

NScheduled flightsnearest airport ALP is 153 km away
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Ar Rastan, 41 km.

35.033°, 36.303°

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Rusafa had a population of 1,608 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites. It is the site of a former Ismaili fortress.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Folkertherlyn (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.