Al-Zahra
Sign in to saveAl-Zahra () is a Palestinian municipality in the Gaza Governorate, south of Gaza and north of the Wadi Gaza, in the central Gaza Strip. The University of Palestine and Ummah Open University are located there. In 2017, it had a population of 5,338. There were 837 housing units and 237 other buildings in the town.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Al-Zahra
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
- Latin
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info1
- Madinat Az-Zahra' (official)Ezahra (unofficial)
- Settlement.type
- Municipality type C
- Settlement.image_skyline
- An aerial view of heavily damaged collapsed buildings caused by Israeli airstrikes in Al-Zahra, near Gaza city.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ruins in al-Zahra in November 2023
- Settlement.image_blank_emblem
- AlZahra_Logo.jpg
- Settlement.blank_emblem_type
- Municipal Seal of Al-Zahra' Municipality
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Al-Zahra within Palestine
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- State of Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gaza
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Etymology
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Named after
- Madinat Al-Zahra
- Country
- Palestine
- Located in
- Gaza Governorate
- Continent
- Asia
- Population
- 5338
- Area
- 4.7
- Elevation
- 17
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Besor River
- Shares border with
- Sheikh Ijlin
- Location
- Gaza Strip
- Image
- An aerial view of heavily damaged collapsed buildings caused by Israeli airstrikes in Al-Zahra, near Gaza city.jpg
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- located on street
- Al-Rashid Road
- authority
- Palestinian National Authority
- maintained by
- Palestinian Ministry of Interior
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Palestine
- inception
- 1998-00-00
- name in native language
- الزَّهْرَاءُ
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- adjacent structure or building
- University of Palestine
- Commons category
- Al-Zahra
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Al-Zahra () is a Palestinian municipality in the Gaza Governorate, south of Gaza and north of the Wadi Gaza, in the central Gaza Strip. The University of Palestine and Ummah Open University are located there. In 2017, it had a population of 5,338. There were 837 housing units and 237 other buildings in the town.
Yasser Arafat established Al-Zahra in the 1990s as a residential area for Palestine Authority staff and supporters. It remained a neighborhood with larger houses and more open space than others in Gaza City. In 1998, a Bronze Age archaeological site was discovered at Al-Zahra during work on a housing project. The site was subsequently named Tell es-Sakan and investigated by archaeologists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Zahra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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