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Hizma

Hizma is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate, seven kilometers from Jerusalem's Old City. The town, mostly located in Area C of the West Bank, borders four Israeli settlements, and , and Almon.
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  • Type: Village with 7,190 residents
  • Description: municipality in Jerusalem Governorate
  • Also known as: “Ḩizmah”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Qubur Bani Isra’il and Tall Al-Ful.

Archaeological site
Photo: Chesdovi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qubur Bene Isra'in or Qubur Bani Isra'il, are four, formerly five, huge stone structures dated to the Middle Bronze Age, which rise from a rocky plateau overlooking Wadi Qelt in the , about 3.5 miles northeast of , between Hizma and along Highway 437.

Archaeological site
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gibeah is the name of three places mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the tribes of Benjamin, Judah, and Ephraim respectively. Gibeah of Benjamin, also Gibeah of Saul, is the most commonly mentioned of the places. is situated 3½ km west of Hizma.

Peak
is an archaeological site in the , occupied from the Middle Bronze Age to the Ottoman period. It is located in the about 4 km northeast of and about 1.5 km northeast of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pisgat Ze’ev and Geva Binyamin.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pisgat Ze'ev is an Israeli settlement in and the largest residential neighborhood in with a population of over 50,000. Pisgat Ze'ev was established by as one of the city's five Ring Neighborhoods on land effectively annexed after the 1967 Six-Day War.

Village
Photo: מיכאלי, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Adam, is an Israeli settlement in the , built over land expropriated from the Palestinian village of . It is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of .

Neighborhood
Photo: יעקב, CC BY 3.0.
is an Israeli settlement in , part of the Israeli-occupied territories, north of the settlement of and south of the Palestinian locality of .

Hizma

Latitude
31.83388° or 31° 50′ 2″ north
Longitude
35.26364° or 35° 15′ 49″ east
Population
7,190
Elevation
601 metres (1,972 feet)
Open location code
8G3QR7M7+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 334466941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
283676
Wiki­data ID
Q2907886
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Polish—“Hizma” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حزما”
  • Asturian: “Hizma”
  • Catalan: “Hizma”
  • Cebuano: “Ḩizmā”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حزما”
  • French: “Hizma”
  • Hebrew: “חיזמא”
  • Hebrew: “חיזמה”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hizma”
  • Persian: “حزما”
  • Polish: “Hizma”

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Highlights include Jafar Bin Abi Taleb Mosque and ارض زراعيه.

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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 “Hizma”. Photo: Dvirraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.