Kalya
Kalya is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the West Bank. It was originally established in 1929 but was occupied and destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948; it was later rebuilt in 1968 after the Six-Day War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 440 residents
- Description: colonial kibutz in the occupied West Bank
- Also known as: “Kalia”, “Nahal Kallia”, “Nahal Kalya”, and “Naẖal Kalya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Qumran.
Qumran
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dead Sea has its western coast in Israel and the West Bank. It is the lowest point in the world at 394.6 m below sea level. 25 km of Dead Sea coastline lie within Palestinian Authority territory, including Qumran and Ein Feshka.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Almog and Beit HaArava.
Almog
Village
Photo: Dvirraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Almog is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea, in the Jordan Rift Valley, organized as a kibbutz. It is under the jurisdiction of the Megilot Regional Council. Almog is situated 4½ km north of Kalya.
Beit HaArava
Village
Photo: Dnd man, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit HaArava is an Israeli settlement and kibbutz in the West Bank. Located near the Dead Sea and Jericho at the eponymous Beit HaArava Junction, the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 90, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megilot Regional Council. Beit HaArava is situated 7 km north of Kalya.
Ovnat
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ovnat is a small Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestine, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, about 7 km south of Kalya and 12 km north of Mitzpe Shalem. Ovnat is situated 8 km south of Kalya.
Kalya
- Categories: kibbutz, Israeli settlement, and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.74981° or 31° 44′ 59″ northLongitude
35.46615° or 35° 27′ 58″ eastPopulation
440Elevation
-389 metres (-1,276 feet)Open location code
8G3QPFX8+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 431637088OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
282602Wikidata ID
Q2777789
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Kalya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاليا”
- Catalan: “Kalia”
- Catalan: “Kàlia”
- Czech: “Kalija”
- Czech: “Kalya”
- Dutch: “Kalya”
- French: “Kalia”
- French: “Kalya”
- German: “Kalya”
- Hebrew: “קלי’ה”
- Hebrew: “קליה”
- Hungarian: “Kalia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalya”
- Persian: “کالیا (اسرائیل)”
- Persian: “کالیا”
- Polish: “Kalia”
- Polish: “Kalja”
- Polish: “Qalia”
- Portuguese: “Kalia”
- Russian: “Калья”
- Spanish: “Kalia”
- Spanish: “Kalya”
- Telugu: “కాల్యా”
- Turkish: “Kalya”
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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 “Kalya”. Photo: Donatus, CC BY-SA 2.5.