Jurat ash-Sham’a
Jurat ash-Sham'a is a Palestinian village located ten kilometers south of Bethlehem. The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate in the southern West Bank.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,490 residents
- Description: municipality type D in bl, State of Palestine
- Also known as: “Jaurat esh Sham‘a”, “Jurat a-Sham’a”, “Jurat ash Sham’ah”, “Jurat esh Shama”, “Khirbat ash Sham‘a”, “Khirbat ash Sham‘ah”, and “Khirbat esh Shama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Biar Aqueduct and Yeshivat Machanaim.
Biar Aqueduct
Archaeological site
Photo: Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Biar Aqueduct, or Wadi el-Biyar Aqueduct, is an ancient aqueduct in the northern Hebron Hills, south of Jerusalem, that formed part of the city's historic water-supply system.
Yeshivat Machanaim
School
Photo: איתמר אוחנה, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yeshivat Machanaim is a school, which is situated 2½ km west of Jurat ash-Sham’a.
Gush Etsyon Junction
Bus stop
Gush Etzion Junction, also known simply as Gush Junction, is a 120-dunam business, commercial and tourism center in the southern West Bank, which serves as the entry point to the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements. Gush Etsyon Junction is situated 3½ km west of Jurat ash-Sham’a.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Umm Salamuna and Al-Masara.
Umm Salamuna
Village
Umm Salamuna is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south-west of Bethlehem. The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate in the southern West Bank.
Al-Masara
Village
Al-Masara is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, 6.2 km southwest of Bethlehem, part of the Bethlehem Governorate. It is surrounded by a number of smaller Palestinian villages, including Khallet al-Haddad to the east.
Efrata
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gush Etzion is a group of Israeli settlements in the West Bank between Bethlehem and Hebron, about 950 meters above the sea level. It has a rich history dating from the 1920s and 30s to recent times.
Jurat ash-Sham’a
- Category: locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.65136° or 31° 39′ 5″ northLongitude
35.16968° or 35° 10′ 11″ eastPopulation
1,490Elevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)Open location code
8G3QM529+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 431635982OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
283419Wikidata ID
Q6314948
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Jurat ash-Sham’a” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جورة الشمعة”
- Arabic: “جوره الشمعه”
- Catalan: “Jurat ash-Sham’a”
- Cebuano: “Jūrat ash Sham‘ah”
- Dutch: “Jurat ash-Sham’a”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جورة الشمعه”
- French: “Jurat ash-Sham’a”
- Hebrew: “ג’ורת א-שמעה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jurat ash Sham’a”
- Uzbek: “Jurat ash-Shamʼa”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Marah Ma’allah and Wadi Al-Nis.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jorat Al-Sham’a Local Council and Umm Salamuna Local Council.
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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 “Jurat ash-Sham’a”. Photo: Sheepdog85, CC BY-SA 3.0.