Golan Heights
The Golan Heights (Arabic: هضبة الجولان Haḍbatu 'l-Jawlān or مرتفعات الجولان Murtafaʻātu l-Jawlān, Hebrew: רמת הגולן, Ramat ha-Golan (audio) ), or simply the Golan or the Syrian Golan, is a region in the Levant.
Latitude and longitude of Izra‘
Satellite map of Izra‘
Izra' (Arabic: ازرع Izra') is a town in Syria, administratively belonging to Izra' District of the Daraa Governorate located north of Daraa. Izra' has an altitude of 599 metres and had a population of 19,158 in 2004, according to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
Population: 13,882
Latitude: 32° 52' 14.16" N
Longitude: 36° 15' 16.31" E
Articles of interest in Izra‘
24 Articles of interest near Izra‘, Syria
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The Battle of Yarmouk was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Arab forces of the Rashidun Caliphate. The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, a…
Bashan
Bashan (/ˈbeɪʃən/; Hebrew: הַבָּשָׁן, ha-Bashan; Latin: Basan or Basanitis) is a biblical place first mentioned in Genesis 14:5, where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his confederates "smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth", where Og the king of Bashan h…
As-Suwayda
As-Suwayda (Arabic: السويداء / ALA-LC: as-Suwaydā’), also spelled Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the border with Jordan.
Rujm el-Hiri
Rujm el-Hiri (Arabic: رجم الهري, Rujm al-Hīrī; Hebrew: גִּלְגַּל רְפָאִים Gilgal Refā'īm or Rogem Hiri) is an ancient megalithic monument, consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus at center.
Jabal al-Druze
Jabal al-Druze (Arabic: جبل الدروز, Mountain of the Druze), officially Jabal al-Arab (Arabic: جبل العرب, Mountain of the Arabs) is an elevated volcanic region in southern Syria, in the As-Suwayda Governorate. Most of the inhabitants of this region …
Shahba
Shahba (Arabic: شهبا / ALA-LC: Shahbā), known in Late Antiquity as Philippopolis, is a city located 87 km south of Damascus in the Jabal el Druze in As-Suwayda Governorate of Syria, but formerly in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.
Raphana
Raphana, in present-day north of Jordan, was a city of the Decapolis.
Petroleum Road
The Petroleum Road (Hebrew: כביש הנפט, Kvish HaNeft) is a privately owned north-south asphalt road in the Golan Heights. It is 47 km (29 mi) long.
Abila (Peraea)
Abila (Arabic: ابيلا) – also, Biblical: Abel-Shittim or Ha-Shittim (or simply Shittim) – was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea; the site is now …
Shaqqa
Shaqqa or Shakka (Arabic: شقا) is a Syrian town in As Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria, whose some 8,000 inhabitants are mainly Druze, descendants of those who migrated here from Lebanon in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Khabab
Khabab (Arabic: خبب, Syriac: ܟܚܐܒܐܒ, Khababb) is a town located in southern Syria in the Hauran plain, part of the Daraa Governorate, 57 km (~36 miles) south of Damascus and about the same distance from the city of Daraa.
Qanawat
Qanawat (Arabic: قنوات), is a village in Syria, located 7 km north-east of As Suwayda.
Gamla nature reserve
Gamla nature reserve is a nature reserve and archaeological site located in the center of the Golan Heights, about 20 km south to the Israeli settlement Katzrin.
Bassir
Bassir(Arabic: بصير, Syriac: ܒܨܝܪ ): is a village in Hauran, located 630 (0.4 miles) meters above sea level and 51 kilometers (32 mi) southern of Damascus in Syria.Bassir is bordered from the East by Lejah, from the South by Khabab, from the West by…
Al-Ariqah
Ariqah or ‘Arīqah (Arabic: عريقة) is a village in southern Syria with a population of about 3,000. It is located in the heart of the rocky volcanic plateau of Lejah also called (Lajat). Administratively Ariqah is situated in the Mantiqat Shahba (Sha…
Bridge at Nimreh
The Bridge at Nimreh is a Roman bridge in the vicinity of Shahba (ancient Philippopolis), Syria, dating to the 3rd or 4th century AD.
Yonatan, Golan Heights
Yonatan (Hebrew: יוֹנָתָן) is an Israeli settlement and a moshav located in the central Golan Heights. Yonatan was started as a moshav shitufi and underwent a privatization process to become a "yishuv kehillati" (community settlement). The settlemen…