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Jaffa

Jaffa, also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of , , located in its southern part.
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  • Type: Suburb with 46,000 residents
  • Description: southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv
  • Also known as: “Giaffa”, “Iope”, “Iopē”, “Japho”, “Joppa”, “Yafa”, “Yafah”, “Yaffa”, “Yaffo”, and “Yafo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bloomfield Stadium and Jaffa Port.

Stadium
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is a football in , , with a capacity of 29,400. It is the home stadium of Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv. The stadium also serves the Israel national football team for some select home matches.

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is an ancient port situated on the Mediterranean Sea. It is located in within Jaffa, , . The port serves as a fishing harbour, a yacht harbour, and as a tourist destination.

Museum
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The Ilana Goor Museum, or the Ilana Goor Residence and Museum, is an Israeli situated in the , the Mediterranean port town south of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South and East and Ajami.

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South Tel Aviv and East Tel Aviv are two overlapping areas of .

Neighborhood
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is a predominantly Arab neighborhood in Tel Aviv-Yafo, , situated south of Old Jaffa and north of the Jabaliyya neighborhood on the Mediterranean Sea.

Suburb
Abu Kabir was a satellite village of Jaffa founded by Egypt following Ibrahim Pasha's 1832 defeat of Turkish forces in Ottoman era Palestine. During the 1948 Palestine war, it was mostly abandoned and later destroyed.

Jaffa

Latitude
32.04434° or 32° 2′ 40″ north
Longitude
34.75099° or 34° 45′ 4″ east
Population
46,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
8G4P2QV2+P9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278471086
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
293253
Wiki­data ID
Q180294
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yiddish—“Jaffa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Jafa”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Joppa”
  • Arabic: “Yāfā”
  • Arabic: “Yāffā”
  • Arabic: “يافا”
  • Arabic: “يافة”
  • Armenian: “Յաֆֆա”
  • Asturian: “Jaffa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yaffa”
  • Basque: “Jaffa”
  • Basque: “Jafo”
  • Belarusian: “Яфа”
  • Bulgarian: “Яфа”
  • Bulgarian: “Яфо”
  • Catalan: “Haifa”
  • Catalan: “Jafa”
  • Catalan: “Jaffa”
  • Catalan: “Yafo”
  • Cebuano: “Yafo”
  • Central Kurdish: “یافا”
  • Chinese: “雅法”
  • Chuvash: “Яффа”
  • Croatian: “Jafa”
  • Croatian: “Jaffa”
  • Czech: “Jaffa”
  • Czech: “Jaffo”
  • Czech: “Jafo”
  • Czech: “Joppe”
  • Czech: “Rova 7”
  • Danish: “Jaffa”
  • Dutch: “Jaffa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يافا”
  • Esperanto: “Jafo”
  • Estonian: “Jaafo”
  • Estonian: “Jaffa”
  • Estonian: “Joppe”
  • Estonian: “Yafo”
  • Finnish: “Jaffa”
  • Finnish: “Joppa”
  • Finnish: “Joppe”
  • French: “Jaffa”
  • French: “Jophé”
  • French: “Joppé”
  • Georgian: “იაფა”
  • Georgian: “იაფო”
  • German: “Jaffa”
  • German: “Joppe”
  • Greek: “Γιάφα”
  • Greek: “Ιόππη”
  • Hausa: “Jaffa”
  • Hebrew: “Yāfō”
  • Hebrew: “Yāp̄ô”
  • Hebrew: “יפו”
  • Hebrew: “יָפוֹ”
  • Hindi: “याफ़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Jaffa”
  • Icelandic: “Jaffa”
  • Indonesian: “Jaffa”
  • Irish: “Jaffa”
  • Italian: “Giaffa”
  • Italian: “Ioppe”
  • Italian: “Jaffa”
  • Japanese: “ヤッファ”
  • Japanese: “ヤッフォ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾಪ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Yafa”
  • Korean: “야파”
  • Ladino: “Yafo”
  • Latin: “Joppe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jaffa”
  • Macedonian: “Јафа”
  • Malagasy: “Jaffa”
  • Malay: “Jaffa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaffa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jafa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jāfā”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaffa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaffo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jafo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jafu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Japho”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Japu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Joppa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yafa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yāfā”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yaffo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yafo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yafu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yapu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “יפו”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “يَافَا”
  • Norwegian: “Jaffa”
  • Ossetian: “Яффæ”
  • Persian: “یافا”
  • Persian: “یافو”
  • Polish: “Jafa”
  • Polish: “Jaffa”
  • Polish: “Stara Jafa”
  • Portuguese: “Jafa”
  • Portuguese: “Jaffa”
  • Portuguese: “Jope”
  • Portuguese: “Joppa”
  • Portuguese: “Yafo”
  • Pushto: “یافا”
  • Romanian: “Jaffa”
  • Russian: “Иоппия”
  • Russian: “Йоппа”
  • Russian: “Яфа”
  • Russian: “Яфо”
  • Russian: “Яффа”
  • Russian: “Яффо”
  • Scots: “Jaffa”
  • Scots: “Joppa”
  • Scots: “Yafo”
  • Serbian: “Jafa”
  • Serbian: “Јафа”
  • Serbian: “يَافَا”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jafa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jaffa”
  • Slovak: “Jaffa”
  • Slovenian: “Jafa”
  • Slovenian: “Jafo”
  • Somali: “Yaafa”
  • Spanish: “Jafa”
  • Spanish: “Jaffa Israel”
  • Spanish: “Jaffa”
  • Spanish: “Jope”
  • Spanish: “Yafa”
  • Spanish: “Yaffo”
  • Spanish: “Yafo”
  • Swedish: “Jaffa-lime”
  • Swedish: “Jaffa”
  • Swedish: “Jafo”
  • Swedish: “Japho”
  • Swedish: “Joppa”
  • Swedish: “Yafa”
  • Swiss German: “Jaffa”
  • Tamil: “யோப்பா”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Jaffa”
  • Turkish: “Jaffa”
  • Turkish: “Japho”
  • Turkish: “Joppa”
  • Turkish: “Yafa”
  • Tyap: “Yafa”
  • Uighur: “يافا”
  • Ukrainian: “Яффа”
  • Ukrainian: “Яффо”
  • Urdu: “یافا”
  • Venetian: “Zafo”
  • Vietnamese: “Jaffa”
  • Welsh: “Jaffa”
  • Western Frisian: “Jaffa”
  • Wu Chinese: “雅法”
  • Yiddish: “יאפא”
  • Yiddish: “יפו”
  • Yiddish: “יפֿו”

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