Boundary marker

A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in direction of a boundary.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: physical indication of a boundary
  • Also known as: “BM”, “border marker”, “border monument”, “border stone”, “borderstone”, “boundary marker”, “boundary marking”, “boundary point”, “boundary stone”, “boundary tree”, “BS”, and “stone mark”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include September 11 Monument and Har Hamenoochot.

Monument
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The 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza consists of an Israeli cenotaph surrounded by a larger complex near . It was built on 5 acres of land, having been completed in 2009, and had been designed by Israeli artist Eliezer Weishoff to honour the victims of the September 11 attacks, which were carried out by al-Qaeda against the in 2001. is situated 320 metres southwest of Boundary marker.

Cemetery
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Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claims it as its capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not. is situated 1¼ km south of Boundary marker.

Ruins
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was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of . The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist paramilitary forces during the 1948 Palestine war. is situated 2 km southeast of Boundary marker.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beit Iksa and Ramot.

Village
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is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate of the , located northwest of in the . The village is surrounded on all sides by the Israeli West Bank barrier, and outside Palestinians are denied access through the one Israeli checkpoint leading to it.

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, also known as Alon, is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in . was founded in 1974 as one of Jerusalem's so-called "Ring settlements", considered illegal under international law.

Village
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, also Mozah or Motsa, is a neighbourhood on the western edge of . It is located in the , 600 metres above sea level, connected to Jerusalem by the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway, Highway 16, and the winding mountain road to .

Boundary marker

Latitude
31.80799° or 31° 48′ 29″ north
Longitude
35.18188° or 35° 10′ 55″ east
Open location code
8G3QR55J+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7170393086
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q921099
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Boundary marker” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shënuesi i kufirit”
  • Arabic: “أرف”
  • Arabic: “أُرَف”
  • Arabic: “أرفة”
  • Arabic: “أُرفَة”
  • Arabic: “حجر الحدود”
  • Arabic: “حجر حد”
  • Arabic: “حجر حدود”
  • Arabic: “علامة الحدود”
  • Arabic: “علامة حدود”
  • Aragonese: “Mollón”
  • Armenian: “հողաբաժան սահմանաքար”
  • Armenian: “սահմանաքար”
  • Armenian: “Սահմանաքար”
  • Basque: “mugarri”
  • Basque: “Zedarri”
  • Bavarian: “Moastoa”
  • Belarusian: “пагранічны знак”
  • Belarusian: “памежны знак”
  • Catalan: “Fita de frontera”
  • Catalan: “fita”
  • Catalan: “Terme geogràfic”
  • Chinese: “界石”
  • Chinese: “界碑”
  • Czech: “hraniční kámen”
  • Czech: “hraniční kameny”
  • Czech: “mezní kámen”
  • Czech: “mezník”
  • Danish: “grænsesten”
  • Dutch: “grensboom”
  • Dutch: “grensmarker”
  • Dutch: “grensmarkering”
  • Dutch: “Grensmarkering”
  • Dutch: “grenspaal”
  • Dutch: “grenssteen”
  • Esperanto: “limŝtono”
  • Esperanto: “Limŝtono”
  • Estonian: “piirimärk”
  • Finnish: “rajakivi”
  • Finnish: “rajamerkki”
  • Finnish: “Rajamerkki”
  • Finnish: “rajapyykki”
  • Finnish: “rajaviisari”
  • French: “borne frontalière”
  • French: “borne frontiere”
  • French: “borne frontière”
  • French: “Borne frontière”
  • French: “bornes frontières”
  • Galician: “fito xeográfico”
  • German: “Bannstein”
  • German: “Grenzbaum”
  • German: “Grenzmarke”
  • German: “Grenzmarkierung”
  • German: “Grenzpunkt”
  • German: “Grenzsäule”
  • German: “Grenzstein”
  • German: “Grenzzeichen”
  • Hebrew: “אבן גבול”
  • Hungarian: “határfa”
  • Hungarian: “határjelölés”
  • Hungarian: “határjelölő”
  • Hungarian: “határjelzés”
  • Hungarian: “határjelző”
  • Hungarian: “határkő”
  • Hungarian: “határmegjelölés”
  • Hungarian: “határpont”
  • Indonesian: “tapal batas”
  • Indonesian: “tugu perbatasan”
  • Irish: “rianaire teorann”
  • Italian: “cippo di confine”
  • Italian: “Cippo di confine”
  • Italian: “marcatore di confine”
  • Italian: “pietra di confine”
  • Japanese: “境界標”
  • Japanese: “境界石”
  • Japanese: “標石”
  • Korean: “지계표”
  • Latin: “terminus”
  • Latin: “Terminus”
  • Latvian: “robežakmens”
  • Latvian: “robežzīme”
  • Limburgan: “Grenspaol”
  • Lithuanian: “Riboženklis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grenzmaark”
  • Luxembourgish: “Maark”
  • Macedonian: “граничен бележник”
  • Macedonian: “граничен камен”
  • Macedonian: “граничник”
  • Macedonian: “меѓник”
  • Macedonian: “Меѓник”
  • Macedonian: “межник”
  • Macedonian: “синорник”
  • Malay: “batu sempadan”
  • Malay: “monumen sempadan”
  • Malay: “penanda batu”
  • Malay: “penanda sempadan”
  • Malay: “penandaan sempadan”
  • Malay: “tugu sempadan”
  • Manchu: “ᡥᡝᡧᡝᠨ ᡳ  ᠴᠠᠮᡥᠠᡵᡳ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “grensemerke”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “grenserøys”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “grensestein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “grensestolpe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grensestein”
  • Norwegian: “Grensemerke”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrme geografic”
  • Persian: “نشانگر مرز”
  • Polish: “granicznik”
  • Polish: “słup graniczny”
  • Polish: “znak graniczny”
  • Polish: “Znak graniczny”
  • Portuguese: “marco de fronteira”
  • Portuguese: “Marco de fronteira”
  • Portuguese: “marco divisório”
  • Portuguese: “marco fronteiriço”
  • Portuguese: “marco”
  • Quechua: “Saywa rumi”
  • Russian: “межевой камень”
  • Russian: “пограничный знак”
  • Russian: “Пограничный знак”
  • Russian: “пограничный камень”
  • Russian: “пограничный маркер”
  • Russian: “пограничный маркерный знак”
  • Serbian: “Гранични камен”
  • Slovenian: “mejna točka”
  • Slovenian: “mejni kamen”
  • Slovenian: “mejnik”
  • Slovenian: “Mejnik”
  • Spanish: “Hito fronterizo”
  • Spanish: “hito geografico”
  • Spanish: “hito geográfico”
  • Spanish: “Mojon”
  • Spanish: “Mojón”
  • Swedish: “gränsmärke”
  • Swedish: “Gränsmärke”
  • Swedish: “gränsröse”
  • Swedish: “råmärke”
  • Swedish: “råröse”
  • Swedish: “rör”
  • Swedish: “tomtrör”
  • Swiss German: “Gränzstai”
  • Swiss German: “Marchstei”
  • Thai: “เครื่องหมายเขต”
  • Thai: “เครื่องหมายเขตแดน”
  • Thai: “หลักเขตแดน”
  • Thai: “หลักศิลาบอกเขตแดน”
  • Thai: “หลักหินบอกเขตแดน”
  • Turkish: “sınır taşı”
  • Turkish: “Sınır taşı”
  • Ukrainian: “прикордонний знак”
  • Ukrainian: “Прикордонний знак”
  • Upper Sorbian: “měznik”
  • Welsh: “arwydd terfyn”
  • Western Frisian: “Bidlersstien”
  • Western Frisian: “Puntpeal”
  • Yue Chinese: “界石”
  • Yue Chinese: “界碑”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Gat and אבן גבול.

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