Az-Zawayda
Az-Zawayda, also spelled Zawaida, is a Palestinian town in the Gaza Strip, in the Deir al-Balah Governorate of the State of Palestine. It is located about three kilometers northeast of the city of Deir al-Balah and just west of Maghazi refugee camp.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Gaza Strip
- Also known as: “Al Zawaida” and “Az Zuwāydah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Deir El Belah War Cemetery and Kfar Darom.
Deir El Belah War Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Deir El Balah War Cemetery was established in March 1917. After the Armistice of Mudros ended the Ottoman Empire's participation in the First World War, some graves were relocated from nearby to the Deir El Balah War Cemetery.
Kfar Darom
Ruins
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kfar Darom was a kibbutz and an Israeli settlement within the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip. Kfar Darom is situated 3 km south of Az-Zawayda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Musaddar and Deir el-Balah.
Al-Musaddar
Village
Al-Musaddar is a Palestinian village in the central Gaza Strip, part of the Deir al-Balah Governorate east of Deir al-Balah, south of the Maghazi refugee camp and west of the border with Israel.
Deir el-Balah
Town
Deir al-Balah is a city in the center of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the administrative capital of the Deir al-Balah Governorate. It is located over 14 kilometers south of Gaza City.
Al Maghazi Refugee Camp
Suburb
Maghazi is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the Deir al-Balah Governorate in the central Gaza Strip. It was established in 1949. The camp is built on 559 dunums.
Az-Zawayda
- Categories: Municipality of Palestine type A and locality
- Location: Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.42804° or 31° 25′ 41″ northLongitude
34.3653° or 34° 21′ 55″ eastElevation
29 metres (95 feet)Open location code
8G3PC9H8+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 776438083OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Az-Zawayda” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزوايدة”
- Arabic: “الزوايده”
- Asturian: “Az-Zawayda”
- Basque: “Az-Zawayda”
- Catalan: “Az-Zawayda”
- Cebuano: “Az Zuwāydah”
- Central Kurdish: “زەوایدە”
- Chinese: “阿兹扎韦达”
- Dutch: “Az-Zawayda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الزوايده”
- French: “Az Zawâydah”
- French: “Az-Zawayda”
- French: “Zawaida”
- Hebrew: “א-זאוואידה”
- Hebrew: “א-זוואידה”
- Indonesian: “Az-Zawayda”
- Japanese: “アズ・ザワイダ”
- Japanese: “アッ・ザワーイダ”
- Korean: “아즈자와이다”
- Korean: “알자와이다”
- Korean: “앗 자와이다”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Az-Zawayda”
- Persian: “الزوایده”
- Polish: “Az-Zawajda”
- Russian: “Аль-Завайда”
- Spanish: “Az-Zawayda”
- Urdu: “الزوایدہ”
- Uzbek: “Az-Zavayda”
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