Susya
Susya is a religious community Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located near the archaeological site of Susya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,300 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in Mount Hebron, Judea, the West Bank
- Also known as: “Suseya” and “Susya, Har Hebron”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tell Maon.
Tell Maon
Archaeological site
Horvat Maon/H. Ma'on, Arabic: Khirbet Ma'in or Tell Máîn, i.e. 'Ma'in Ruins/Tell of Ma'in', is an archaeological site in the Hebron Hills, West Bank, rising 863 metres above sea level, where the remains of the ancient town of Ma'on have been excavated. Tell Maon is situated 2½ km northeast of Susya.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Susiya and Mitzpe Yair.
Susiya
Hamlet
Photo: Rabbis for Human Rights, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khirbet Susya is a Palestinian village in the West Bank. Palestinian villagers reported as living in caves and nearby tents are considered as belonging to a unique southern Hebron cave-dwelling culture present in the area since the early 19th century.
Mitzpe Yair
Hamlet
Mitzpe Yair is an unauthorized Israeli settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Located two kilometres south-east of Susya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hebron Regional Council.
Beit Yatir
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Yatir, officially Metzadot Yehuda, is an Israeli settlement in the southern Hebron Hills of the West Bank, organized as a religious-Zionist Orthodox moshav. Beit Yatir is situated 3 km south of Susya.
Susya
- Categories: Israeli settlement and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.39195° or 31° 23′ 31″ northLongitude
35.11354° or 35° 6′ 49″ eastPopulation
1,300Elevation
806 metres (2,644 feet)Open location code
8G3Q94R7+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1268387907OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
281711Wikidata ID
Q20728762
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Susya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوسيا”
- Arabic: “سوسية”
- Czech: “Susja”
- Dutch: “Susiya”
- French: “Susya”
- Hebrew: “סוסיא”
- Hebrew: “סוּסְיָא”
- Hebrew: “סוסיה”
- Polish: “Suseja”
- Polish: “Susja”
- Spanish: “Susya (asentamiento israelí)”
- Spanish: “Susya”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Susya”. Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.