Holy Land
The Holy Land or Holy Lands is a generic term that usually refers to one or more countries in the Middle East, specifically the Levant, that witnessed the origins and early history of three of the world's great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
- Type: term
- Description: Denotes areas of the Southern Levant that hold great significance in the Abrahamic religions, primarily because of their association with people and events featured in the Bible.
- Also known as: “Agioi Topoi”, “Det förlovade landet”, “Det Hellige Landet”, “Halige Land”, “Hellige land”, “Hellige Landet”, “Het Heilige Land”, “Luoghi Santi”, “Lur Santuak”, “Lurralde Santua”, “Lurralde Santuak”, “Outremer”, “Palestine”, “Sankta Tero”, “Santos lugares”, “Svētā vieta”, “Terra Sagrada”, “Terra Sancta”, “Terra-Santa”, “Terrasanta”, “Terre-sainte”, “Verheißenes Land”, “Zasľúbená zem”, “Země zaslíbená”, “Светите земи”, “Светите места”, “מקומות קדושים”, “קדושת ארץ ישראל”, “ارض اقدس”, “ارضِ مقدسہ”, “الأرض المقدسة”, “الديار”, “الديار المقدسة”, “புண்ணிய பூமி”, “விவிலியத் திருநாடு”, “ดินแดนศักดิ์สิทธิ์”, “ดินแดนอันศักดิ์สิทธิ์”, “聖なる国”, “聖地 (亞洲)”, “聖地 (巴勒斯坦)”, and “聖都”
Holy Land
- Categories: geographic location and sacred place
- Location: Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
30.89° or 30° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
34.87° or 34° 52′ 12″ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Holy Land” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Heilige Land”
- Albanian: “Toka e Shenjtë”
- Arabic: “الأراضي المقدسة”
- Armenian: “Սուրբ Երկիր”
- Asturian: “Tierra Santa”
- Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs torpaqlar”
- Basque: “Lur Santua”
- Belarusian: “Святая зямля”
- Bengali: “পবিত্র ভূমি”
- Breton: “Douar Santel”
- Bulgarian: “Свети земи”
- Catalan: “Terra Santa”
- Central Kurdish: “خاکی پیرۆز”
- Chinese: “圣土”
- Chinese: “聖地”
- Chuvash: “Сăваплă çĕр”
- Chuvash: “Таса çĕр”
- Croatian: “Sveta Zemlja”
- Czech: “Svatá země”
- Danish: “Det hellige land”
- Dimli (individual language): “Herrê firazi”
- Dutch: “Heilig Land”
- Dutch: “Heilige Land”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الارض المقدسه”
- Esperanto: “Sankta Lando”
- Estonian: “Püha maa”
- Finnish: “pyhä maa”
- Finnish: “Pyhä maa”
- French: “Terre sainte”
- Galician: “Terra Santa”
- Georgian: “წმინდა მიწა”
- German: “Heiliges Land”
- Greek: “Άγιοι Τόποι”
- Hausa: “Ƙasa mai Tsarki”
- Hebrew: “ארץ הקודש”
- Hindi: “पवित्र भूमि”
- Hungarian: “Szentföld”
- Icelandic: “Landið helga”
- Indonesian: “Tanah Suci”
- Irish: “An Talamh Naofa”
- Italian: “Terra santa”
- Italian: “Terra Santa”
- Japanese: “聖地”
- Korean: “거룩한 땅”
- Latvian: “Svētā zeme”
- Lithuanian: “Šventoji žemė”
- Lombard: “Terra Santa”
- Low German: “Hillig Land”
- Macedonian: “Света земја”
- Macedonian: “Света Земја”
- Malagasy: “Tany Masina”
- Malay: “Tanah Suci”
- Mazanderani: “تررا سانتا”
- Minangkabau: “Tanah Suci”
- Nias: “Tanö Amabu’ula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det hellige land”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det heilage landet”
- Norwegian: “Det hellige land”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra Santa”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hālig Land”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hālige Land”
- Persian: “سرزمین مقدس”
- Picard: “Sainte Tière”
- Polish: “Ziemia Święta”
- Portuguese: “Terra Santa”
- Romanian: “Țara Sfântă”
- Russian: “Святая земля”
- Russian: “Святая Земля”
- Rusyn: “Свята земля”
- Serbian: “Света земља”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta zemlja”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta Zemlja”
- Sicilian: “Terra Santa”
- Slovak: “Svätá zem”
- Slovenian: “Sveta dežela”
- Spanish: “Tierra Santa”
- Swahili: “Nchi takatifu”
- Swedish: “Det heliga landet”
- Swedish: “Heliga landet”
- Swiss German: “Heiliges Land”
- Swiss German: “S Häilige Land”
- Tamil: “திருநாடு”
- Thai: “แผ่นดินศักดิ์สิทธิ์”
- Turkish: “Kutsal Topraklar”
- Ukrainian: “Свята земля”
- Urdu: “دیار مقدسہ”
- Urdu: “دیارِ مقدسہ”
- Vietnamese: “Đất Thánh”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baraan nga Katunaan”
- Welsh: “y Wlad Sanctaidd”
- Welsh: “Y Wlad Sanctaidd”
- Western Panjabi: “ارض مقدسہ”
- Wu Chinese: “圣地 (地区)”
- Wu Chinese: “圣地（地区）”
- Yakut: “Сибэтиэй сир”
- Yue Chinese: “聖地”
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