Sansana
Sansana is a religious Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the southern Judaean Mountains, to the south-west of Hebron and over the Green Line, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Horvat Rimmon.
Horvat Rimmon
Archaeological site
Horvat Rimmon, or simply Rimmon, alternatively Khirbet Umm er-Ramanin, is an archaeological site in the southern Judean Lowlands in Israel. Located on a low hill about 500 metres south of Lahav, it preserves the remains of a Jewish village occupied from the late Second Temple period into the early Islamic era. Horvat Rimmon is situated 3½ km west of Sansana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Ramadin and Eshkolot.
Al-Ramadin
Hamlet
Eshkolot
Village
Eshkolot is a secular Israeli settlement in the southern Judaean Mountains of the West Bank. Located around five kilometers from Lahav, it is organized as a community settlement and falls within the jurisdiction of the Har Hevron Regional Council. Eshkolot is situated 3 km north of Sansana.
Lahav
Village
Lahav is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located around 20 km north of Beersheba and covering 33,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 693. Lahav is situated 3½ km northwest of Sansana.
Sansana
- Type: Village with 519 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
- Categories: Israeli settlement, Nahal settlement, ruins, residential area, and locality
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.36368° or 31° 21′ 49″ north
Longitude
34.90211° or 34° 54′ 8″ east
Population
519
Open location code
8G3P9W72+FR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Sansana” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنسانة”
- Czech: “Sansana”
- French: “Sansana”
- Hebrew: “סנסנה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sansana”
- Persian: “سنسانه”
- Polish: “Sansana”
- Russian: “Сансана”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Sansana and Eshkolot.
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