Tuqu’
Tuquʿ or Tequʿ is a Palestinian town in the Bethlehem Governorate, located 12 km southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The modern town was built up in 1948 and lies adjacent to the ancient site of Teqoa, Khirbet Tuqu', from which it takes its name, and which is administered by the Tuqu' municipal council along with two other localities: Khirbet ad-Deir and Al-Halqum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: municipality in Bethlehem Governorate
- Also known as: “Teqoa” and “Tuqu‘”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tekoa and Marah Rabah.
Tekoa
Village
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Tekoa is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the West Bank, located 20 km northeast of Hebron, 16 km south of Jerusalem and in the immediate vicinity of the Palestinian village of Tuqu'.
Marah Rabah
Village
Marah Rabah is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south of Bethlehem. The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 1,729 in 2017. Marah Rabah is situated 2½ km west of Tuqu’.
Nokedim
Village
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Nokdim is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the West Bank. Located south of Bethlehem in the northern Judean Mountains, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council. Nokedim is situated 3 km east of Tuqu’.
Tuqu’
- Category: village
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Tuqu’” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تقوع”
- Asturian: “Tuqu‘”
- Catalan: “Tuqu‘”
- Catalan: “Tuqu’”
- Chinese: “提哥亞”
- Dutch: “Tuqu‘”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تقوع”
- Finnish: “Tuqu‘”
- Finnish: “Tuqu’”
- French: “Teqoa”
- French: “Tuqu‘”
- German: “Khirbet et-Teqūʿ”
- Greek: “Θεκουέ”
- Hebrew: “תוקוע”
- Indonesian: “Tuqu‘”
- Indonesian: “Tuqu’”
- Italian: “Tuqu‘”
- Italian: “Tuqu’”
- Japanese: “テコア”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuqu’”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tuqu‘”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tuqu’”
- Norwegian: “Tuqu’”
- Persian: “تقوع”
- Polish: “Tuku”
- Portuguese: “Tecoa”
- Spanish: “Tuqu‘”
- Spanish: “Tuqu’”
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