Tell
Tell, pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,162 inhabitants in 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 4,610 residents
- Description: village council in Nablus
- Also known as: “Tall”, “Tell, Nablus”, “Tīl”, and “Till”
Places of Interest
Highlights include An-Najah National University and Od Yosef Chai.
An-Najah National University
University
Photo: أمين, CC BY-SA 4.0.
An-Najah National University is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties. It is the largest university in the State of Palestine. An-Najah National University is situated 4 km northeast of Tell.
Od Yosef Chai
School
Photo: לוי יצחק כהן, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Od Yosef Chai, also known as Od Yosef Hai is a yeshiva situated in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Od Yosef Chai includes several related institutions; a yeshiva high school, a yeshiva gedola, a kollel and the publishing house that released "The King's Torah", and other materials. Od Yosef Chai is situated 3½ km southeast of Tell.
Rafidiya
Building
Rafidiya is a neighborhood in the western part of the Palestinian city of Nablus. It was a separate village until it was merged into the municipality in 1966. In 1961, Rafidiya had 923 inhabitants, rising to 1,200 in 1983. Rafidiya is situated 3½ km northeast of Tell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Asira al-Qibliya and Madama.
Asira al-Qibliya
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
’Asira al-Qibliya is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,935 inhabitants in 2017.
Madama
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Madama is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate.
Sarra
Village
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Sarra is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 11 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 3,384 inhabitants in 2017.
Tell
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.19892° or 32° 11′ 56″ northLongitude
35.213° or 35° 12′ 47″ eastPopulation
4,610Elevation
610 metres (2,001 feet)Open location code
8G4Q56X7+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 332779431OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
281674Wikidata ID
Q7697359
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Tell” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تل (قرية)”
- Arabic: “تل (قريه)”
- Arabic: “تِل، نابلس”
- Arabic: “تـل”
- Arabic: “تل”
- Arabic: “تلّ”
- Catalan: “Tell”
- Cebuano: “Till”
- Dutch: “Tell, Nablus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تل”
- French: “Tell”
- Greek: “Τελ, Ναμπλούς”
- Hebrew: “תל”
- Japanese: “ティル”
- Japanese: “テル”
- Portuguese: “Tell, Nablus”
- Russian: “Телл”
- Spanish: “Tell, Nablus”
- Spanish: “Tell”
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