Baniyas
Facts
21 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- city, populated place in Syria[6]
- Official website
- www.newadvent.org[12]
- Native label
- بانياس
- Official name
- بانياس[16]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 35.182°, 35.940°[9]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Baniyas District, Tartus Governorate, Banyas Subdistrict[2][3][4]
Population and size
- Elevation above sea level
- 25 m
Codes
- Local dialing code
- 43[8]
- Located in time zone
- Eastern European Time[7]
More facts +10
- Website
- www.newadvent.org
- Located in
- Baniyas District, Tartus Governorate, Banyas Subdistrict
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 35.182°, 35.940°
- Described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa[14]
- Locator map image
- commons.wikimedia.org
- Museum digital place id
- 37621
- Significant event
- Siege of Baniyas, Bayda and Baniyas massacres[10][11]
- Timezone
- Eastern European Time
- Topic has template
- Wikidata item[15]
- Viaf id
- 137192980
- VIAF cluster ID
- 137192980
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n79044526
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Baniyas-1.jpg ↗
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
- 2522
- BBC Things ID
- a2a71417-304b-4596-a412-ad2d51d3504c
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 155866265
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID
- 02215a
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- banyas
- Freebase ID
- /m/067mgc
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2540079
- GeoNames ID
- 171830
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 7155
Show all 19 identifiers +7
- Museum-digital place ID
- 37621
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge643722
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007475118305171
- SNARC ID
- Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad
- Topic's main category
- Category:Baniyas
- UN/LOCODE
- SYBAN
- Who's on First ID
- 421190435
People born here 4
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Significant event 2
Category of associated people 1
Contained subdivisions 1
Country 1
Described by source 1
Instance of 1
Located in this place 1
Located in time zone 1
SNARC ID 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category combines topics 1
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Summary
Baniyas is a city[1].
Body
Geography
Located in include Baniyas District[2], a district of Syria[17], in Syria[18]; Tartus Governorate[3], a governorate of Syria[19], in Syria[20]; and Banyas Subdistrict[4], a subdistrict of Syria[21], in Syria[22].
Physical Characteristics
Baniyas's elevation above sea level is recorded as 25 m[23].
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
evidence “Officials also cited pressure on Russian fuel supplies and the closure of Syria’s largest refinery at Baniyas for extensive maintenance.” lestimes.com · read source