Jattir
Jattir is a town in Judea mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. It was known as Iethira during the 4th century CE, when it was a Christian town.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 615 metres (2,018 feet)
- Description: town mentioned in the Bible
- Also known as“Horbat Yattir”“Khirba ‘Attīr”“Khirbat ‘Atir”“Khirbat Attir”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khirbet Zanuta and Asa’el.
Khirbet Zanuta
Hamlet
Khirbet Zanuta was a Palestinian Bedouin village… Khirbet Zanuta is situated 3 km northwest of Jattir.
Shim’a
Shim'a, also Yonadav, is an Israeli settlement in the… Shim’a is situated 4 km north of Jattir.
Jattir
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Latitude
31.35348° or 31° 21′ 13″ north
Longitude
35.01639° or 35° 0′ 59″ east
Open location code
8G3Q9238+9H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Jattir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خربة عتير”
- Cebuano: “H̱orbat Yattir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خربة عتير”
- French: “Yatir”
- Hebrew: “חורבת יתיר”
- Hebrew: “חרבת יתיר”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jattir”
- Norwegian: “Jattir”
- Russian: “Ятир”
- Turkish: “Jattir”
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