Shahba
Shahba Subdistrict, Syria
Shahba (/ ALA-LC: Shahbā) is a city located 87 km (54 mi) south of Damascus in the Jabal al-Druze in Suwayda Governorate of Syria, but formerly in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. Known in Late Antiquity as Philippopolis (in Arabia), the city was the seat of a Bishopric (see below), which remains a Latin titular see. The city had a population of 13,660 in the 2004 census. In Shahba, Druze make up the predominant population, while Christians and Sunni Muslim Bedouins represent a minority.
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