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 include Tell Halif and Horvat Rimmon.
Tell Halif
Heath
Tel H̱alif, formerly Tel H̱alifa is an archaeological site, a mound in northern Negev area, west from kibbutz Lahav, Israel. Tell Halif is situated 4 km northwest of Sansana.
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
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Ramadin is a Palestinian village located 24 kilometers southwest of Hebron and includes the smaller village of 'Arab al-Fureijat to the southeast. The village is part the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank.
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: Judea and Samaria community, 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″ northLongitude
34.90211° or 34° 54′ 8″ eastPopulation
519Open location code
8G3P9W72+FROpenStreetMap ID
way 732444769OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q2889134
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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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