as-Samu
As Samu' or es-Samu' is a town in the Hebron Governorate of the West Bank, Palestine, 12 kilometers south of the city of Hebron and 60 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem.Photo: Ahmad hawamdeh, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 19,600 residents
- Description: Municipality in Hebron Governorate. Its name preserves the name of the Jewish settlement, from biblical times to the 4th century, Eshtemoa. Identified as the biblical hearsay by the scholar Edward Robinson
- Also known as: “Al-Samou’”, “al-Samu‘”, “As Samu‘”, “As-Samu”, “As-Samu‘”, “Es Samū‘”, “Eshtemoa‘”, and “Samu’a”
- Address: السموع
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ancient Susya.
Ancient Susya
Archaeological site
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Susya is a location in the southern Hebron Governorate in the West Bank. It houses an archaeological site with extensive remains from the Late Roman and Byzantine periods, including the ruins of an archeologically notable synagogue, repurposed as a mosque after the Muslim conquest of Palestine in the 7th century. Ancient Susya is situated 3½ km east of as-Samu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include As Simiya and Asa’el.
As Simiya
Village
Khirbat al-Simia is a Palestinian village located four kilometers north-west of As-Samu.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,705 in mid-year 2006. As Simiya is situated 3 km northwest of as-Samu.
Asa’el
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Asa'el, also known as Mitzpe Asa'el, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located three kilometres south-east of Shim'a, it falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council. Asa’el is situated 3½ km southwest of as-Samu.
Susiya
Hamlet
Photo: Rabbis for Human Rights, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khirbet Susya is a Palestinian village in the West Bank. Palestinian villagers reported as living in caves and nearby tents are considered as belonging to a unique southern Hebron cave-dwelling culture present in the area since the early 19th century. Susiya is situated 4 km east of as-Samu.
as-Samu
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Hebron, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.39912° or 31° 23′ 57″ northLongitude
35.06696° or 35° 4′ 1″ eastPopulation
19,600Elevation
696 metres (2,283 feet)Open location code
8G3Q93X8+JQOpenStreetMap ID
node 332792078OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
284583Wikidata ID
Q1768653
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“as-Samu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “السموع”
- Arabic: “السموع”
- Arabic: “الفردوس”
- Asturian: “as-Samu”
- Basque: “As Samu‘”
- Basque: “As-Samu”
- Catalan: “As-Samu”
- Cebuano: “As Samū‘”
- Central Kurdish: “سەمووع”
- Dutch: “As-samu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “السموع”
- Finnish: “As Samu‘”
- Finnish: “As Samu’”
- Finnish: “As Samu”
- French: “As-Samu”
- German: “As-Samu”
- Hebrew: “א-סמוע”
- Hebrew: “סמוע”
- Indonesian: “Es Samu”
- Japanese: “アス・サム”
- Japanese: “アッ・サムーア”
- Javanese: “Es Samu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “As Samu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “As-Samu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Es Samu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Es-Samu‘”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Es-Samu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “As-Samu”
- Norwegian: “As-Samu”
- Persian: “السموع”
- Polish: “As-Samu”
- Slovenian: “As Samu”
- Spanish: “Samua”
- Urdu: “السموع”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ancient Synagogue and Al Samu’ Capital Mosque.
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