Deir Alla
Deir Alla is the site of an ancient Near Eastern town in Balqa Governorate, Jordan. The Deir Alla Inscription, datable to ca. 840–760 BCE, was found here.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 7,320 residents
- Description: city in Balqa Governorate, Jordan
- Also known as: “Dayr ‘Allā”, “Dayr `Alla”, and “Deir ‘Alla”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Az-Zubaidat and Argaman.
Az-Zubaidat
Village
az-Zubaidat is a Palestinian village in the Jericho Governorate in the eastern West Bank situated in the Jordan Valley, located 27 kilometers north of Jericho. Az-Zubaidat is situated 9 km west of Deir Alla.
Argaman
Village
Photo: Boris Carmi, CC BY 4.0.
Argaman is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley, eight kilometres north of the Damia Bridge with an area of 4,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. Argaman is situated 10 km west of Deir Alla.
Deir Alla
- Categories: village in Jordan, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.19778° or 32° 11′ 52″ northLongitude
35.62111° or 35° 37′ 16″ eastPopulation
7,320Elevation
-223 metres (-732 feet)Open location code
8G4Q5JXC+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 802852110OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
249693Wikidata ID
Q4166525
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Deir Alla” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Deir Alla”
- Arabic: “دير علا (البلقاء)”
- Arabic: “دير علا”
- Arabic: “ديرعلا”
- Arabic: “قضاء دير علا”
- Dutch: “Deir Alla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دير علا”
- French: “Dayr Alla”
- German: “Dayr Alla”
- Hebrew: “דיר עלא”
- Indonesian: “Deir Alla”
- Italian: “Deir Alla”
- Japanese: “デイル・アッラー”
- Japanese: “テル・デイル・アッラー”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deir Alla”
- Persian: “دیر علا”
- Polish: “Dajr Alla”
- Portuguese: “Deir Alla”
- Portuguese: “Tell Deir Alla”
- Romanian: “Deir Alla”
- Urdu: “دیر علا”
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