Issawiya
Al-Issawiya is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It is located on the eastern slopes of the Mount Scopus ridge. To the east and north, it is bordered by Road 1, which connects Jerusalem with the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim; immediately adjoining…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in east Jerusalem
- Also known as: “‘Īsawīya”, “`Isawiya”, “Al-Issawiya”, “Isawiya”, and “Isawiyya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Scopus and Jerusalem War Cemetery.
Mount Scopus
Peak
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claim it is their capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.
Jerusalem War Cemetery
Cemetery
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The Jerusalem War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Jerusalem for fallen servicemen of the Commonwealth in the World War I in the Palestine campaign.
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Building
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Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldest institution of higher education and is considered the most prestigious art school in the country.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include French Hill and ’Anata.
French Hill
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
French Hill, also Giv'at Shapira is an Israeli settlement in northern East Jerusalem. It is located on territory that has been occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 and later unilaterally annexed by Israel under the Jerusalem Law, in a move internationally condemned as illegal, "null and void" under international law, in 1980.
’Anata
Town
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'Anata is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank, located four kilometers northeast of Jerusalem's Old City.
Shuafat refugee camp
Suburb
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Shu'fat, or more commonly Shuafat, is a Palestinian refugee camp in Jerusalem jurisdiction located next to Shuafat, a Palestinian Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
Issawiya
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.79909° or 31° 47′ 57″ northLongitude
35.24967° or 35° 14′ 59″ eastElevation
743 metres (2,438 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ6XX+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 278477306OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Issawiya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “العيسوية”
- Arabic: “العيسويه”
- Catalan: “Isawiya”
- Czech: “Isavija”
- Czech: “Íssávíja”
- Dutch: “Al-Issawiya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العيسويه”
- French: “Al-Issawiya”
- French: “Issawiya”
- Hebrew: “עיסאוויה”
- Hebrew: “עיסוויה”
- Indonesian: “Al-Issawiya”
- Italian: “Al-Issawiya”
- Macedonian: “Ал-Исавија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Issawiya”
- Norwegian: “Issawiya”
- Spanish: “Isawiya”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mount Scopus and Zameret HaBira.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Al Arbaein mosque and Sabarin Mosque.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Issawiya”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.