Bayt Maqdūm is a village in Palestine, State of.
Population: 2,530
Latitude: 31° 32' 7.33" N
Longitude: 34° 58' 18.91" E
The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at (31°30′N34°45′E) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in western Asia. It is bounded to the north by L…
Green Line refers to the demarcation lines set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The name derives from the green ink used …
The Hebron massacre refers to the killing of sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews (including 46 yeshiva students and teachers) on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of Mandatory Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to…
Beit Shemesh (Hebrew: בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ,; Greek: Βαιθσαμύς; Latin: Bethsames) is a city located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District, with a population of 80,600 in 2010. The history of Beit Shemesh goes b…
Gush Etzion (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ עֶצְיוֹן, lit. Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Jewish communities located in the Judaean Mountains directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the Judean Hills. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that…
The Valley of Elah, Ella Valley, "the valley of the terebinth" (Hebrew: עמק האלה Emek HaElah) (Arabic Wadi es-Sunt), so called after the large and shady terebinth trees (Pistacia atlantica) which are indigenous to its parts, and best known as the p…
Gath, Gat, or Geth (Hebrew: גַּת, Winepress; Latin: Geth), often referred to as Gath of the Philistines, was one of the five Philistine city-states, established in northwestern Philistia. According to the Bible, the king of the city was Achish, in …
The Jerusalem District (Hebrew: מחוז ירושלים; Arabic: منطقة القدس) is one of six administrative districts of Israel. The district capital is Jerusalem. The Jerusalem District has a land area of 652 km². The population of 910,300 is 67.8% Jewish an…
Tel Lachish (Hebrew: תל לכיש; Greek: Λαχις; Latin: Tel Lachis), also Tell ed-Duweir, is the site of an ancient Near East city, now an archaeological site and an Israeli national park. Lachish is located in the Shephelah region of Israel between Mou…
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, 13 kilometers from Kiryat Gat, encompassing the ruins of Maresha, one of the important towns of Judah during the time of the First Temple, and Beit Guvrin, an important town in …
The Battle of Ajnadayn (Arabic: معركة أجنادين) was fought in July or August 634 (Jumada I or II, 13 AH), in an unknown location close to Beit Guvrin in present-day Israel; it was the first major pitched battle between the Byzantine (Roman) Empire a…
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Bayt Jibrin (Arabic: بيت جبرين, also Beit Jibrin), (Hebrew: בית גוברין), was a pre-1948 Palestinian Arab village located 21 kilometers (13 mi) northwest of the city of Hebron.
Adullam is an ancient ruin, built upon a hilltop overlooking the Elah Valley, south of Bet Shemesh in Israel. The hilltop is mostly flat, with cisterns carved into the rock. The remains of stone structures which once stood there can still be seen. S…
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Hebron refers to an ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Hebron has a Palestinian majority, consisting of so…
Tel Maresha (Hebrew: תל מראשה), also Marissa (ماريسا the Arabized form), is an antiquity site in Israel's southern lowlands. The tel was first excavated by the British archaeologists Bliss and Macalister on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Yatir Forest (Hebrew: יער יתיר) is a forest in Israel, located on the southern slopes of Mount Hebron, on the edge of the Negev Desert.
The Hebron Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الخليل Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalīl; Hebrew: נפת חברון Nafat Ḥevron) is an administrative district of the Palestine in the southern West Bank.