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Hebron

Hebron

Hebron is an ancient city in the southern . It is the traditional burial place of the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their wives.
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  • Type: City with 163,000 residents
  • Description: Palestian city in the occupied West Bank
  • Also known as: “Al Khalil”, “Al Khalīl”, “El Khalil”, “El Khulil”, “Ḩabrūn”, “Hevrōn”, and “Khalil-el-Rahman”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cave of the Patriarchs and Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town.

Photo: Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews by its Biblical name Cave of Machpelah and to Muslims as the Sanctuary of Abraham, is a series of caves situated in the heart of the in the , 30 kilometres south of .

Protected area
Photo: Eman, Public domain.
The Old City of Hebron is the historic city centre of Hebron. The Hebron of antiquity is thought by archaeologists to have originally started elsewhere, at Tel Rumeida, which is approximately 200 meters west of today's Old City, and thought to have originally been a Canaanite city.

Monastery
Photo: Copper Kettle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of the Holy Forefathers and Monastery of the Holy Trinity, also known as Al Maskobiya, is a Russian Orthodox monastery and church in Hebron, , founded in the 20th century on the site of the ancient Oak of Mamre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kiryat Arba and Avraham Avinu Neighborhood.

Village
or Qiryat Arba is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the southern Israeli-occupied . Founded in 1968, in 2023 it had a population of 7,572.

Neighborhood
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Village
Photo: سجى نبيل أبو سنينة, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Palestinian village located four kilometers south of Hebron and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of . The village is in the in the Southern .

Hebron

Latitude
31.5289° or 31° 31′ 44″ north
Longitude
35.0945° or 35° 5′ 40″ east
Population
163,000
Elevation
903 metres (2,963 feet)
Open location code
8G3QG3HV+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299937114
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
285066
Wiki­data ID
Q168225
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hebron” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hebron”
  • Albanian: “Hebroni”
  • Amharic: “ኬብሮን”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Χεβρών”
  • Arabic: “الخليل”
  • Arabic: “حبرون”
  • Arabic: “هيبرون”
  • Aragonese: “Hebrón”
  • Armenian: “Հևրոն”
  • Asturian: “Hebron”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl Xəlil”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Xəlil”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hevron”
  • Basque: “Al-Khalil”
  • Basque: “Hebron”
  • Belarusian: “Гэброн”
  • Belarusian: “Хеўрон”
  • Bengali: “হেবরন”
  • Betawi: “Kelil”
  • Breton: “Al-Khalil”
  • Bulgarian: “Хеброн”
  • Catalan: “Al-Halīl”
  • Catalan: “Al-Khalil”
  • Catalan: “Hebron”
  • Catalan: “Kiriath-Arba”
  • Catalan: “Kirjath-arba”
  • Catalan: “Kiryat Arba”
  • Catalan: “Kiryath-Arba”
  • Cebuano: “Hebron”
  • Central Kurdish: “خەلیل”
  • Chechen: “Аль-Халил”
  • Chechen: “Халиль”
  • Chinese: “哈利勒”
  • Chinese: “希伯仑”
  • Chinese: “希伯伦”
  • Chinese: “希伯侖”
  • Chinese: “希伯倫”
  • Chinese: “希伯崙”
  • Chinese: “希布伦”
  • Croatian: “Hebron”
  • Czech: “Hebron”
  • Danish: “Hebron”
  • Dimli (individual language): “El Xelil”
  • Dutch: “Hebron”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الخليل”
  • Esperanto: “Hebron”
  • Estonian: “Hebron”
  • Finnish: “Al Khalil”
  • Finnish: “Hebron”
  • Finnish: “Hevron”
  • French: “Al-Khalil”
  • French: “Hébron”
  • Galician: “al-Khalīl”
  • Galician: “Hebrón”
  • Georgian: “ალ-ჰალილი”
  • Georgian: “ჰებრონი”
  • German: “Al-Khalil”
  • German: “Hebron”
  • Greek: “Χεβρών”
  • Greek: “Χεβρώνα”
  • Gujarati: “હેબ્રોન”
  • Hausa: “Hebron”
  • Hebrew: “אל חליל”
  • Hebrew: “אל-ח’ליל”
  • Hebrew: “אלחליל”
  • Hebrew: “חברון”
  • Hebrew: “חברן”
  • Hindi: “हेब्रोन”
  • Hungarian: “Hebron”
  • Icelandic: “Hebron”
  • Indonesian: “Hebron”
  • Interlingua: “Hebron”
  • Irish: “Heabrón”
  • Italian: “Ebron”
  • Italian: “Hebron”
  • Japanese: “アル＝ハリール”
  • Japanese: “ヘブロン”
  • Kabyle: “Ḥebrun”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hebron”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಬ್ರೋನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Äl-Xalïl”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Халил”
  • Kazakh: “ٴال-حالىيل”
  • Korean: “헤브론”
  • Ladino: “Hevron”
  • Latin: “Hebron”
  • Latvian: “Halīla (Hebrona)”
  • Latvian: “Halīla”
  • Latvian: “Hebrona”
  • Lithuanian: “Hebronas”
  • Macedonian: “Хеброн”
  • Macedonian: “Хеврон”
  • Malagasy: “Hebrona”
  • Malagasy: “Hebrôna”
  • Malay: “Hebron”
  • Maltese: “Al Khalil”
  • Maltese: “Al-Khalil”
  • Maltese: “Hebron”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯦꯕ꯭ꯔꯣꯟ”
  • Marathi: “अल-हलिल”
  • Marathi: “हेब्रॉन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Khalil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hebron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hebron”
  • Norwegian: “Hebron”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hebron”
  • Ossetian: “Аль-Халиль”
  • Ossetian: “Хеврон”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Халиль”
  • Persian: “الخلیل”
  • Persian: “حبرون”
  • Persian: “هبرون”
  • Polish: “Al-Chalil”
  • Polish: “Hebron”
  • Portuguese: “Hebrom”
  • Portuguese: “Quiriate-Arba”
  • Romanian: “Hebron”
  • Russian: “Аль-Халиль”
  • Russian: “Хеврон”
  • Russian: “Эль-Халиль”
  • Scots: “Hebron”
  • Serbian: “Hebron”
  • Serbian: “Хеброн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hebron”
  • Silesian: “Hebron”
  • Sinhala: “හෙබ්රෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Hebron”
  • Slovenian: “Al Khalil”
  • Slovenian: “Hebron”
  • Spanish: “Al Khalil”
  • Spanish: “Hebron”
  • Spanish: “Hebrón”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵅⴰⵍⵉⵍ”
  • Swedish: “Hebron”
  • Swiss German: “Hebron”
  • Tajik: “ал-Халил”
  • Tajik: “Ҳебрун”
  • Tamil: “எபிரோன்”
  • Telugu: “హెబ్రోన్”
  • Thai: “Hebron”
  • Thai: “อัลคาลีล”
  • Thai: “ฮีบรอน”
  • Thai: “เฮโบรน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hebron”
  • Turkish: “El Halil”
  • Turkish: “El-Halil”
  • Turkish: “Halil”
  • Turkish: “Hebron”
  • Turkish: “Hevron”
  • Ukrainian: “Хеврон”
  • Urdu: “الخلیل”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Xalil”
  • Venetian: “Hebron”
  • Vietnamese: “Hebron”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hebron”
  • Welsh: “Hebron”
  • Western Panjabi: “الخلیل”
  • Wu Chinese: “希伯仑”
  • Yiddish: “חברון”
  • Yue Chinese: “希伯崙”
  • Zeeuws: “Hebron”

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