Amona
Amona was an Israeli outpost in the central West Bank. Located on a hill overlooking Ofra within the municipal boundaries of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, the village was founded in 1995 on privately owned Palestinian land.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Ruins
- Description: Israeli settlement in Binyamin which was evacuated by the Israeli government
- Also known as: “Amona, Mateh Binyamin”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tall Asur and St. George Church ruin.
Tall Asur
Peak
Tall Asur, (Hebrew: Ba'al-hazor, is an irregularly shaped plateau, marking the geographical boundary between Samaria to its north and Judea to its south. Tall Asur is situated 3 km north of Amona.
St. George Church ruin
Ruins
Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY 3.0.
St. George Church ruin is a ruins, which is situated 2½ km east of Amona.
Taybeh Brewery
Building
Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY 3.0.
Taybeh Brewery is a brewery founded in 1994 in the West Bank village of Taybeh, 35 kilometres north of Jerusalem, by Nadim Khoury and his brother David, members of the local Palestinian Christian community. Taybeh Brewery is situated 2 km east of Amona.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ofra and Deir Jarir.
Ofra
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ofra is an Israeli settlement located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Located on the main road between Jerusalem and Nablus, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.
Deir Jarir
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deir Jarir is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank, located twelve kilometers northeast of Ramallah.
Taybeh
Village
Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY 3.0.
Taybeh is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, 15 kilometers northeast of Jerusalem and 12 kilometers northeast of Ramallah, in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of Palestine.
Amona
- Categories: Israeli outpost, Israeli settlement, and historic site
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.95328° or 31° 57′ 12″ northLongitude
35.27575° or 35° 16′ 33″ eastOpen location code
8G3QX73G+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 783868592OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q2908652
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Amona” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عامونا”
- Chinese: “阿莫纳”
- Czech: “Amona”
- Dutch: “Amona”
- French: “Amona, Mateh Binyamin”
- French: “Amona”
- German: “Amona, Mateh Binjamin”
- German: “Amona”
- Hebrew: “עמונה”
- Hebrew: “פינוי הבתים בעמונה”
- Hebrew: “פינוי עמונה”
- Japanese: “アモナ私設入植地”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amona i Mateh Binyamin”
- Polish: “Ammona”
- Polish: “Amona”
- Portuguese: “Amona”
- Slovak: “Amona”
- Spanish: “Amona”
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