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Abu Dis

Abu Dis or Abu Deis is a Palestinian village in the , in the of the State of Palestine, bordering . Since the 1995 Oslo II Accord, Abu Dis land has been mostly part of "Area B", under Israeli military control and Palestinian civic control.
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  • Type: Town with 12,300 residents
  • Description: Palestinian village in the West Bank
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lazarus Tomb and Bethphage monastery.

Church
Photo: Marion Doss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tomb of Lazarus is a traditional Christian pilgrimage in the suburb of Jerusalem Governorate, . It is located on the southeast slope of the , some 2.4 km east of the city limits of .

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bethphage or Bethsphage, is a Christian religious site on the east of . The Synoptic Gospels mention Jesus stopping in Bethphage before his triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

Church
Photo: Alistair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Eizariya and Ras al-Amud.

Town
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bethany, locally called in Arabic or el-Aizariya, is a Palestinian town in the of , bordering , in the .

Suburb
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Palestinian neighborhood in located southeast of the Old City of Jerusalem. The Palestinian neighborhood of lies to the south, Abu Dis and al-Eizariya to the east, and the Jewish neighborhood of to the north.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
Jabel Mukaber is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in southern . It is bordered by to the west, and to the north and to the south. Jabel Mukaber has a population of approximately 30,000.

Abu Dis

Latitude
31.76424° or 31° 45′ 51″ north
Longitude
35.25845° or 35° 15′ 30″ east
Population
12,300
Elevation
671 metres (2,201 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ775+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332793423
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
285279
Wiki­data ID
Q246590
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Abu Dis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أبو ديس”
  • Arabic: “أبوديس”
  • Arabic: “ابو ديس”
  • Arabic: “ابوديس”
  • Arabic: “بلدة أبوديس”
  • Asturian: “Abu Dis”
  • Basque: “Abu Dis”
  • Bulgarian: “Абу Дис”
  • Catalan: “Abu Dis”
  • Cebuano: “Abū Dīs”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەبوو دیس”
  • Chinese: “阿布迪斯”
  • Danish: “Abu Dis”
  • Dutch: “Abu Dis”
  • Esperanto: “Abu Dis”
  • Finnish: “Abu Dis”
  • French: “Abou Dis”
  • French: “Abu Dis”
  • Galician: “Abu Dis”
  • German: “Abu Deis”
  • German: “Abu Dis”
  • Greek: “Αμπού Ντέις”
  • Hebrew: “אבו דיס”
  • Indonesian: “Abu Dis”
  • Japanese: “アブ・ディス”
  • Korean: “아부디스”
  • Malay: “Abu Dis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abu Dis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abu Dis”
  • Norwegian: “Abu Dis”
  • Persian: “ابو دیس”
  • Polish: “Abu Dis”
  • Romanian: “Abu Dis”
  • Russian: “Абу-Дис”
  • Silesian: “Abu Dis”
  • Spanish: “Abu Dis”
  • Turkish: “Abu Dis”
  • Ukrainian: “Абу-Діс”
  • Urdu: “ابو دیس”

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