Kerċem
Ta' Kerċem is a village in Malta, in the island of Gozo, with a population of 1,938 people as of March 2014. Ta' Kerċem evolved into a village community around chapel dedicated to Pope Gregory the Great built around 1581 and replaced in 1851 by a church which was enlarged to its present state between 1906 and 1910.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sudika, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 1,940 residents
- Description: village in Malta
- Also known as: “Kercem”, “Kerchem”, and “Ta‘ Kerċem”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Għar Għerduf catacombs and Gozo Museum of Archaeology.
Għar Għerduf catacombs
Historic site
The Għar Għerduf catacombs at Ta' Kerċem, also known as Għar Gerduf, are the only surviving early Christian catacombs or paleochristian hypogea in Gozo, Malta.
Gozo Museum of Archaeology
Museum
The Gozo Museum of Archaeology is a museum in the Cittadella, the oldest part of the city, of Victoria in Gozo, Malta. The museum of Archaeology was opened in 1960 as the first public museum in Gozo and was known as the Gozo Museum.
Saint George’s Basilica
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. George's Basilica or the Basilica and Collegiate Parish Church of Saint George, also simply known in Maltese as San Ġorġ, is a historic Baroque church situated in the middle of Gozo, the second largest island in the Maltese archipelago, and is surrounded by a maze of old narrow streets and alleys.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fontana and St. Lucia.
Fontana
Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fontana, as a local council, is an administrative unit of Malta, on the island of Gozo, with a population of 985 people.
St. Lucia
Hamlet
Photo: Matthew2007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Luċija is a hamlet in Kerċem, in Gozo Island, Malta. The hamlet takes its name from the church situated in the middle of the hamlet. The original chapel dedicated to St Lucy was recorded by inquisitor Pietro Dusina in 1575 during his apostolic visitation.
Victoria
Photo: ZiYouXunLu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Victoria, also called Rabat is in Gozo. It should not be confused with another town called Rabat on the main island of Malta.
Kerċem
- Category: locality
- Location: Ta’ Kerċem, Malta, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.04169° or 36° 2′ 30″ northLongitude
14.22806° or 14° 13′ 41″ eastPopulation
1,940Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)United Nations Location Code
MT KEROpen location code
8F8P26RH+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 131748932OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kerċem” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كرجم”
- Basque: “Kerċem”
- Belarusian: “Керчэм”
- Bengali: “কেরচেম”
- Catalan: “Kerċem”
- Cebuano: “Ta’ Kerċem”
- Chinese: “凯尔切姆”
- Chinese: “凱爾切姆”
- Danish: “Kerċem”
- Dutch: “Kerċem”
- Esperanto: “Kerċem”
- Finnish: “Kerċem”
- French: “Kerċem”
- French: “Ta’ Kerċem”
- German: “Kerċem”
- Greek: “Κερκέμ”
- Gujarati: “કેરસેમ”
- Hindi: “केर्सेम”
- Hungarian: “Kerċem”
- Indonesian: “Kerċem”
- Italian: “Chercem”
- Italian: “Kerċem”
- Japanese: “ケルチャム”
- Kannada: “ಕೆರ್ಸೆಮ್”
- Korean: “케르쳄”
- Latvian: “Kerčema”
- Lithuanian: “Kercemas”
- Lithuanian: “Kerčemas”
- Malay: “Kercem”
- Maltese: “Kerċem”
- Marathi: “केरनेम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kercem”
- Persian: “کرشم”
- Polish: “Kerċem”
- Portuguese: “Kerċem”
- Russian: “Керчем”
- Sicilian: “Kerċem”
- Sinhala: “කර්සෙම්”
- Spanish: “Kerċem”
- Swedish: “Kerċem”
- Swedish: “Ta’ Kerċem”
- Tamil: “கேர்ஸ்ம்”
- Telugu: “కెర్సెమ్”
- Thai: “เคอเซม”
- Turkish: “Kercem”
- Ukrainian: “Керчем”
- Urdu: “کیرچیم”
- Vietnamese: “Kercem”
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