Sansana
Sansana is a religious Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the southern Judaean Mountains, to the south-west of Hebron and over the Green Line, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council.- Type: Ruin
- Description: Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
- Also known as: “Horbat Sansanna”, “H̱orbat Sansanna”, “Khirba ash Shamsiiniyat”, “Khirbat ash Shamsiniyat”, “Sansanah”, and “Shamsiniyat”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tel Shoqet.
Tel Shoqet
Archaeological site
Tel Shoket is an Israeli tell or archaeological hill in the north of the Negev. It is located adjacent to Highway 60, between the Meitar Interchange and Meitar. Tel Shoqet is situated 4 km south of Sansana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karmit and Kramim.
Karmit
Village
Carmit is a community settlement in the northern Negev desert in Israel, within the jurisdiction of Meitar located near Kramim forest.
Kramim
Village
Photo: Oyoyoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kramim is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located around a kilometer west of Meitar, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 591.
Sansana
- Categories: Israeli settlement, Nahal settlement, ruins, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Sansana” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنسانة”
- Czech: “Sansana”
- French: “Sansana”
- Hebrew: “חרבת סנסנה”
- Hebrew: “סנסנה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sansana”
- Polish: “Sansana”
- Russian: “Сансана”
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