Quds Governorate
The Quds Governorate, also known as Jerusalem Governorate, is one of the 16 governorates of Palestine and located in the central part of the West Bank.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: governorate of the State of Palestine with 419,000 residents
- Description: governorate of the State of Palestine covering East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in the West Bank
- Also known as: “Al Quds”, “Jerusalem”, “Jerusalem Governorate”, “Muḥāfaẓat al-Quds”, and “Nafat al-Quds”
- Neighbors: West Jerusalem
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monastery of Martyrius and Monastery of Euthymius.
Monastery of Martyrius
Archaeological site
Monastery of Martyrius, whose ruins, known as Khirbet el-Murassas in Arabic, have been excavated in the centre of the West Bank settlement and city of Ma'ale Adumim, was one of the most important centres of monastic life in the Judean Desert during the Byzantine period.
Monastery of Euthymius
Archaeological site
Photo: Owenglyndur, CC BY 4.0.
The Monastery of Euthymius started as a lavra-type monastic settlement in the Judaean desert, founded by Saint Euthymius the Great in 420, known as the Laura or Lavra of Euthymius. Monastery of Euthymius is situated 3½ km east of Quds Governorate.
Yeshivat Birkat Moshe
School
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Yeshivat Birkat Moshe is a hesder yeshiva located in the Mitzpeh Nevo neighborhood of the Israeli settlement, Ma'ale Adumim. It was founded in 1977 by Haim Sabato and Yitzchak Sheilat, then two young rabbis from Yeshivat HaKotel, in Jerusalem.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ma’ale Adumim and East Jerusalem.
Ma’ale Adumim
Photo: Labour Palestine, CC BY 2.0.
Maale Adumim is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, east of Jerusalem. It has about 37,000 residents.
East Jerusalem
Photo: Papierdrache, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Jerusalem is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled Old City is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.
Al-Eizariya
Town
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Bethany, locally called in Arabic al-Eizariya or el-Aizariya, is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of Palestine, bordering East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Al-Eizariya is situated 5 km southwest of Quds Governorate.
Quds Governorate
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Quds Governorate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القدس”
- Arabic: “محافظة القدس”
- Aragonese: “Gubernación de Cherusalem”
- Asturian: “Gobernación de Xerusalén”
- Basque: “Jerusalemgo Gobernazioa”
- Belarusian: “Ерусалім”
- Belarusian: “Іерусалім”
- Catalan: “Governació de Jerusalem”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای قودس”
- Chinese: “耶路撒冷省”
- Czech: “Kudský guvernorát”
- Dutch: “Jeruzalem”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة القدس”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Jerusalemo”
- French: “gouvernorat de Jérusalem”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Jérusalem”
- French: “gouvernorat de Qods”
- French: “gouvernorat de Quds”
- Galician: “Gobernación de Xerusalén”
- German: “Gouvernement Jerusalem”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ιερουσαλήμ”
- Hebrew: “אל-קודס”
- Hungarian: “Jeruzsálem kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Quds”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Yerusalem”
- Italian: “governatorato di Gerusalemme”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Gerusalemme”
- Japanese: “エルサレム”
- Japanese: “エルサレム県”
- Korean: “예루살렘주”
- Lithuanian: “Jeruzalės muchafaza”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran al-Quds”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Baitulmakdis”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Baitulmaqdis”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Baitulmuqaddis”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Jerusalem”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Quds”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jerusalem guvernement”
- Persian: “استان قدس”
- Polish: “Jerozolima”
- Portuguese: “Jerusalém (província)”
- Portuguese: “Jerusalém”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Ierusalim”
- Russian: “Иерусалим”
- Scots: “Jerusalem Govrenorate”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Jeruzalem”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Jerusalén”
- Swedish: “Jerusalems provins”
- Turkish: “Kudüs valiliği”
- Urdu: “محافظہ یروشلم”
- Welsh: “Llywodraethiaeth Caersalem”
- Welsh: “Llywodraethiaeth Jerwsalem”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع بیت المقدس”
Localities in the Area
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