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Shiloh

Shiloh was an ancient city and sanctuary in ancient Israel now located in the , . According to the Hebrew Bible, Shiloh was one of the main centers of Israelite worship during the pre-monarchic period, before the First Temple in was built.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Biblical city
  • Also known as: “Ancient Shiloh”, “Kh. Seilun”, “Khirbat Saylun”, “Khirbat Saylūn”, “Khirbat Seilun”, “Seilun, Kh.”, “Shiloh, Tell”, “Tel Shilo”, and “Tell Shiloh”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shiloh and Qaryut.

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a small Israeli settlement in the north-central , located near the historical site of the Samarian city of the same name.

Village
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Qaryout is a Palestinian village in the in the northern , located 28 kilometers southeast of . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, had a population of 2,560 inhabitants in 2017.

Hamlet
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is an Israeli settlement in the , built as an illegal outpost in 1998 and legalized in 2023 by the Israeli government. The settlement was illegally established in 1998 mostly on Palestinian private lands.

Shiloh

Latitude
32.05571° or 32° 3′ 21″ north
Longitude
35.28986° or 35° 17′ 24″ east
Elevation
701 metres (2,300 feet)
Open location code
8G4Q374Q+7W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 912408895
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
281960
Wiki­data ID
Q985542
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Shiloh” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خربة سيلون”
  • Arabic: “سيلون”
  • Basque: “Silo”
  • Catalan: “Siló”
  • Chinese: “示罗”
  • Chinese: “示羅”
  • Czech: “Šílo”
  • Czech: “Tel Šilo”
  • Danish: “Shilo”
  • Dutch: “Silo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيلوه”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝilo”
  • Finnish: “Shiloh”
  • Finnish: “Silo”
  • French: “Shilo”
  • French: “Silo”
  • German: “Silo”
  • Greek: “Σηλώ”
  • Hebrew: “שילה במקרא”
  • Hebrew: “שילה הקדומה”
  • Hebrew: “שילה”
  • Hebrew: “שילו”
  • Hebrew: “תל שילה”
  • Hungarian: “Siló”
  • Indonesian: “Silo, Kanaan”
  • Indonesian: “Silo”
  • Irish: “Shiloh”
  • Italian: “Silo”
  • Japanese: “シロ”
  • Korean: “실로”
  • Ladino: “Silo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjilo”
  • Norwegian: “Sjilo”
  • Persian: “شیلو (شهر کتاب مقدس)”
  • Persian: “شیلو”
  • Polish: “Szilo”
  • Portuguese: “Silo”
  • Portuguese: “Siló”
  • Russian: “Силом”
  • Russian: “Шило”
  • Slovenian: “Šilo”
  • Spanish: “Silo”
  • Swahili: “Shilo”
  • Swedish: “Shilo”
  • Ukrainian: “Шіло”
  • Urdu: “شیلوہ (بائبل کا شہر)”
  • Urdu: “شیلوہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Shiloh”
  • Yiddish: “שילה”

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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 “Shiloh”. Photo: RonAlmog, CC BY 2.0.