Kercem

Ta' Kerċem is a village in , in the island of , 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.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Village with 1,940 residents
  • Description: village in Malta
  • Also known as: “Kerċem” and “Kerchem”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Għar Għerduf catacombs and Saint George’s Basilica.

Historic site
The at Ta' Kerċem, also known as Għar Gerduf, are the only surviving early Christian catacombs or paleochristian hypogea in , .

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.

Church
Photo: Laredawg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the of Victoria in , . The cathedral is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, and has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gozo since the formation of the diocese in 1864.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fontana and St. Lucia.

Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, as a local council, is an administrative unit of , on the island of , with a population of 985 people.

Hamlet
Photo: Matthew2007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Luċija is a hamlet in Kerċem, in Island, . 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.

Photo: ZiYouXunLu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also called Rabat is in . It should not be confused with on the main island of .

Kercem

Latitude
36.04169° or 36° 2′ 30″ north
Longitude
14.22806° or 14° 13′ 41″ east
Population
1,940
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT KER
Open location code
8F8P26RH+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 131748932
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2562816
Wiki­data ID
Q674679
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Kercem” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኬርሴም”
  • Arabic: “كرتشم”
  • Arabic: “كرجم”
  • Arabic: “كركيم”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kercem”
  • Basque: “Kerċem”
  • Belarusian: “Керчэм”
  • Bengali: “কেরচেম”
  • Bengali: “কেরসেম”
  • Catalan: “Kerċem”
  • Cebuano: “Ta’ Kerċem”
  • Chinese: “凯尔切姆”
  • Chinese: “凱爾切姆”
  • Danish: “Kerċem”
  • Dutch: “Kerċem”
  • Esperanto: “Kerċem”
  • Finnish: “Kerċem”
  • French: “Kercem”
  • French: “Kerċem”
  • French: “Ta’ Kerċem”
  • German: “Kercem”
  • German: “Kerċem”
  • Greek: “Κερκέμ”
  • Gujarati: “કેરસેમ”
  • Hausa: “Kercem”
  • Hindi: “केरसेम”
  • Hindi: “केर्सेम”
  • Hungarian: “Kerċem”
  • Indonesian: “Kercem”
  • Indonesian: “Kerċem”
  • Italian: “Chercem”
  • Italian: “Kerċem”
  • Japanese: “ケルセム”
  • Japanese: “ケルチャム”
  • Javanese: “Kercem”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆರ್ಸೆಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Керцем”
  • Kirghiz: “Керцем”
  • Korean: “케르쳄”
  • Latvian: “Kerčema”
  • Lithuanian: “Kercemas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kerčemas”
  • Malay: “Kercem”
  • Maltese: “Kerċem”
  • Maltese: “Ta‘ Kerċem”
  • Marathi: “केरनेम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kercem”
  • Oromo: “Kercem”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਰਸੇਮ”
  • Persian: “کرسیم”
  • Persian: “کرشم”
  • Polish: “Kerċem”
  • Portuguese: “Kercem”
  • Portuguese: “Kerċem”
  • Pushto: “كركيم”
  • Russian: “Керцем”
  • Russian: “Керчем”
  • Sicilian: “Kerċem”
  • Sinhala: “කර්සෙම්”
  • Somali: “Kercem”
  • Spanish: “Kercem”
  • Spanish: “Kerċem”
  • Swahili: “Kercem”
  • Swedish: “Kerċem”
  • Swedish: “Ta’ Kerċem”
  • Tajik: “Керцем”
  • Tamil: “கேர்ஸ்ம்”
  • Tatar: “Керцем”
  • Telugu: “కెర్సెమ్”
  • Thai: “เคอเซม”
  • Turkish: “Kercem”
  • Ukrainian: “Керчем”
  • Urdu: “کرسیم”
  • Urdu: “کیرچیم”
  • Uzbek: “Kercem”
  • Vietnamese: “Kercem”

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