Banī Qays

Banī Qays is a locality in , and has an elevation of 835 metres. Banī Qays is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

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 3½ km north of Banī Qays.

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 Banī Qays.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qilqis and Beit Hagai.

Village
Photo: سجى نبيل أبو سنينة, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Palestinian village located four kilometers south of and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of . The village is in the in the Southern .

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. is situated 3½ km west of Banī Qays.

Village
or Qiryat Arba is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of , in the southern Israeli-occupied . Founded in 1968, in 2024 it had a population of 7,698. is situated 4 km north of Banī Qays.

Banī Qays

Latitude
31.49124° or 31° 29′ 29″ north
Longitude
35.11484° or 35° 6′ 53″ east
Elevation
835 metres (2,740 feet)
Open location code
8G3QF4R7+FW
Geo­Names ID
284429
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