Qalunya
Sign in to saveQalunya (, also transliterated Qaluniya) was a Palestinian village located west of Jerusalem. Prior to the village's destruction in 1948, with the exception of 166 dunams, Qalunya's land was privately owned: 3,594 dunams were owned by Arabs, while 1,084 dunams were owned by Jews.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qalunya
- Settlement.native_name
- قالونيا
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Qaluniya, Colonia, Kolonia, Kulόnieh
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Qalunya.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 200
- Settlement.image_caption
- Qalunya, before 1949
- Settlement.etymology
- from the Latin Colonia
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.map_caption
- A series of historical maps of the area around Qalunya (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Jerusalem Subdistrict
- Population
- +632
- Area
- +4.844
- Image
- Qalunya.jpg
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Ancient history
- Roman and Byzantine periods
- New Testament
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate
- 1948, and after
- Archaeology
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Qalunya (, also transliterated Qaluniya) was a Palestinian village located west of Jerusalem. Prior to the village's destruction in 1948, with the exception of 166 dunams, Qalunya's land was privately owned: 3,594 dunams were owned by Arabs, while 1,084 dunams were owned by Jews.
==Location== Qalunya stood on a mountain slope, facing southwest; Wadi Qalunya passed through its eastern edge. The village lay on the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway, and a dirt path linked it to its neighboring villages. Qalunya was located where the Israelite and Jewish town of Motza was believed to have been. The Modern Motza is now an outlying neighborhood of Jerusalem, and ruins of demolished buildings from Qalunya are present near Motza, covered in vegetation, just off the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The town of Mevaseret Zion today is expanding upon some of the territory of former Qalunya.