Palestine
West Bank
Bethlehem Governorate

Battir

Battir is a Palestinian village in the of the State of Palestine, in the , 6.4 km west of , and southwest of .
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  • Type: Village with 4,500 residents
  • Description: Palestinian village in the West Bank
  • Also known as: “Betar” and “Bittir”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beitar and Yad Kennedy.

Ruins
Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 4.0.
Betar was an ancient Jewish town in the , continuously inhabited since the Iron Age and up until the 2nd century CE. It is most famously known as the final stronghold of the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
, located in the Mateh Yehuda Region near , is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, who was assassinated in , , in 1963. is situated 2½ km north of Battir.

Ruins
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. The name is an Arabic variation of the site's original Roman name, and the ruins of a church there are thought to date to the era of Byzantine or Crusader rule over Palestine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Husan and Al-Walaja.

Village
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is a Palestinian town located 9 km west of , in the . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, had a population of 7,048 in 2017.

Village
Photo: Shy halatzi, GFDL.
is a Palestinian village in the , in the of the State of Palestine, four kilometers northwest of . It is an enclave in the Seam Zone, near the Green Line. is situated 2½ km east of Battir.

Village
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mevo Beitar is a moshav shitufi in central . Located ten kilometres south-west of in the , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,125. is situated 2½ km west of Battir.

Battir

Latitude
31.72543° or 31° 43′ 32″ north
Longitude
35.1354° or 35° 8′ 8″ east
Population
4,500
Elevation
799 metres (2,621 feet)
Open location code
8G3QP4GP+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 431635457
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
284376
Wiki­data ID
Q2915285
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Battir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بتير”
  • Armenian: “Բատիր”
  • Asturian: “Battir”
  • Basque: “Battir”
  • Bengali: “বাত্তির”
  • Catalan: “Battir”
  • Cebuano: “Battīr”
  • Chinese: “巴地尔”
  • Croatian: “Battir”
  • Czech: “Batir”
  • Czech: “Battir”
  • Czech: “Battír”
  • Dagbani: “Battir”
  • Dutch: “Battir”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بتير”
  • Fanti: “Battir”
  • Farefare: “Battir”
  • Finnish: “Battir”
  • French: “Battir”
  • French: “Bittir”
  • Georgian: “ბატირი”
  • German: “Battir”
  • Hebrew: “בתיר”
  • Indonesian: “Battir”
  • Italian: “Battir”
  • Japanese: “バッティール”
  • Japanese: “バティール”
  • Japanese: “バティア”
  • Malayalam: “ബാട്ടിർ”
  • Maltese: “Battir”
  • Maltese: “Bittir”
  • Mossi: “Battir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Battir”
  • Persian: “بتیر”
  • Polish: “Battir”
  • Portuguese: “Battir”
  • Russian: “Баттир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Battir”
  • Spanish: “Battir”
  • Turkish: “Battir”
  • Twi: “Battir na ɔkyerɛwee”
  • Urdu: “بتیر”
  • Vietnamese: “Battir”

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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 “Battir”. Photo: Ali.batha, CC BY-SA 4.0.