Pella
Pella was an ancient city in what is now northwest Jordan, and contains ruins from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Canaanite, Hellenistic and Islamic periods.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: human settlement
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Pella (Decapolis)” and “Pella, Jordan”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kfar Ruppin.
Kfar Ruppin
Village
Photo: Omer bern, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kfar Ruppin is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley, about 5 km southeast of Beit She'an in northern Israel. A member of the Kibbutz Movement, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 606.
Pella
- Categories: archaeological site, village in Jordan, and ancient city
- Location: Northern Jordan, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.45° or 32° 27′ northLongitude
35.6167° or 35° 37′ eastOpen location code
8G4QFJ28+2MWikidata ID
Q167993
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Pella” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طبقة فحل”
- Armenian: “Պելլա”
- Belarusian: “Пела”
- Catalan: “Pel·la”
- Cebuano: “Ţabaqat Faḩl”
- Chinese: “佩拉 (約旦)”
- Chinese: “佩拉”
- Chinese: “塔巴卡法爾”
- Dutch: “Pella (Jordanie)”
- Dutch: “Pella”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طبقة فحل”
- Finnish: “Pella (Palestiina)”
- Finnish: “Pella”
- French: “Tabaqat Fahil”
- Galician: “Pella”
- German: “Pella”
- Greek: “Πέλλα Δεκαπόλεως”
- Hebrew: “פחל”
- Hebrew: “פלה”
- Indonesian: “Pella, Yordania”
- Indonesian: “Pella”
- Italian: “Pella”
- Japanese: “ペラ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pella”
- Norwegian: “Pella”
- Persian: “پلا، اردن”
- Persian: “پلا”
- Polish: “Pella”
- Portuguese: “Pela (Jordânia)”
- Portuguese: “Pela”
- Russian: “Пелла”
- Swedish: “Tabagat Fahl”
- Tatar: “Пебба борынгы каласы”
- Ukrainian: “Пела”
- Ukrainian: “Пелла”
- Urdu: “پیللا، اردن”
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