Tell es-Safi

Tell es-Safi was an Arab Palestinian village, located in the region on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers northwest of , which had its Arab population expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: depopulated Palestinian village
  • Also known as: “Blanche Garde”, “Blanchegarde”, “Tall al Safi”, “Tall as Safi”, “Tel Es Sāfi”, “Tel Zafit”, “Tell es Sāfi”, “תל א-צאפי”, and “テル・ツァフィート”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gat and Kfar Menahem.

Locality
Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.
Gath or was one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis during the Iron Age.

Village
Photo: Shalomig, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a kibbutz in southern . is situated 3½ km north of Tell es-Safi.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Al-'Azi is an Arab village in central . is situated 3½ km northwest of Tell es-Safi.

Tell es-Safi

Latitude
31.70158° or 31° 42′ 6″ north
Longitude
34.84711° or 34° 50′ 50″ east
Elevation
203 metres (666 feet)
Open location code
8G3PPR2W+JR
Geo­Names ID
293333
Wiki­data ID
Q2402271
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Tell es-Safi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تل الصافي”
  • Catalan: “Tell es-Safi”
  • Cebuano: “Tel Ẕafit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل الصافى”
  • French: “Tell es-Safi”
  • German: “Tel Tsafit”
  • German: “Tell es-Safi”
  • Hebrew: “Tel Ẕafit”
  • Hebrew: “תל צפית”
  • Indonesian: “Tell es-Safi”
  • Japanese: “テル・エス＝サフィ”
  • Latin: “Saphitha”
  • Persian: “تل صافی”
  • Polish: “Tall as-Safi”
  • Portuguese: “Tel Safi”
  • Spanish: “Tell es-Safi”
  • Swedish: “Tell es-Safi”
  • Urdu: “تل الصافی”

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