Qilqis

Qilqis is a Palestinian village located four kilometers south of and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of . The village is in the in the Southern .
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Photo: سجى نبيل أبو سنينة, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Village with 1,130 residents
  • Description: village council in Hebron Governorate
  • Also known as: “Khirbat Qalqas”, “Khirbat Qilqis”, and “Qalqas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cave of the Patriarchs and Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town.

Photo: Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews by its Biblical name Cave of Machpelah and to Muslims as the Ibrahami Mosque, or Sanctuary of Ibrahim, is a series of caves situated in the heart of the in the , 30 kilometres south of . is situated 4 km north of Qilqis.

Protected area
Photo: Eman, Public domain.
The Old City of Hebron is the historic city centre of . The Hebron of antiquity is thought by archaeologists to have originally started elsewhere, at Tel Rumeida, which is approximately 200 meters west of today's Old City, and thought to have originally been a Canaanite city. is situated 3½ km north of Qilqis.

Cemetery
Photo: אורלילי, Public domain.
The in is located on a hill to the west of the Tomb of Machpela. It has been used as a Jewish cemetery for hundreds of years. is situated 3½ km north of Qilqis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beit Hagai and Ar-Rihiya.

Village
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, also Hagai, is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement located in the southern Hebron Hills in the . The settlement population was 460 in 2004, according to a classified government document published by the Haaretz newspaper, and lies within the municipal jurisdiction of the Har Hevron Regional Council.

Village
is a Palestinian town located six kilometers southwest of . The town is in the southern . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 5,754 in 2017. is situated 3 km southwest of Qilqis.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fawwar is a Palestinian refugee camp adjacent to the town of in the , located six kilometers southwest of in the southern . is situated 3½ km southwest of Qilqis.

Qilqis

Latitude
31.49324° or 31° 29′ 36″ north
Longitude
35.0958° or 35° 5′ 45″ east
Population
1,130
Elevation
860 metres (2,822 feet)
Open location code
8G3QF3VW+78
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4244262771
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
283096
Wiki­data ID
Q7266389
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Persian—“Qilqis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلقاس”
  • Arabic: “قلقس”
  • Catalan: “Qalqas”
  • Cebuano: “Qalqas”
  • Dutch: “Qalqas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلقس”
  • French: “Qalqas”
  • Hebrew: “קלקאס”
  • Hebrew: “קלקס”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qalqas”
  • Persian: “قلقاس”

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