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Jerusalem District

Bar Giora

Bar Giora is a moshav in the Judean Mountains in . Located between and , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 728.
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  • Type: Village with 674 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Israel
  • Also known as: “Bar Giyora”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Columbarium and Bayt ‘Itab.

Archaeological site
Photo: Ealfons1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A , also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead. is situated 3 km north of Bar Giora.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Dindia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bayt ʿIṭṭāb was a Palestinian Arab village located in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. Both during and after its incorporation into Crusader fiefdoms in the 12th century, its population was Arab.

Ruins
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, also spelt Deir esh Sheikh, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, also known as the . It was located 16 kilometers west of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mata and Nes Harim.

Village
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is a moshav in central . Located in the about eight kilometers southeast of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 870.

Village
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is a moshav settlement in central . Located in the foothills near and eight kilometres west of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

Village
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is a town located in the Jerusalem Corridor, located 12 kilometres southwest of , at an altitude of 755 meters above sea level, located on Route 375 west of , about one kilometer west of the Green Line, adjacent to the Palestinian village of . is situated 2½ km southeast of Bar Giora.

Bar Giora

Latitude
31.72982° or 31° 43′ 47″ north
Longitude
35.07265° or 35° 4′ 22″ east
Population
674
Elevation
711 metres (2,333 feet)
Open location code
8G3QP3HF+W3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278478609
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
295562
Wiki­data ID
Q2920092
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Bar Giora” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بار جيورا”
  • Czech: “Bar Gijora”
  • Czech: “Bar Giora”
  • Czech: “Bar Giyyora”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بار جيورا”
  • French: “Bar Giora”
  • German: “Bar Giyora”
  • Hebrew: “בר גיורא”
  • Hebrew: “בר גיורה”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bar Giora”
  • Polish: “Bar Gijjora”
  • Polish: “Bar Gijora”
  • Russian: “Бар Гиора”
  • Turkish: “Bar Giora”
  • Urdu: “بر گیوراء”

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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 “Bar Giora”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.