Şanamayn is a city in Syrian Arab Republic.
Population: 25,702
Latitude: 33° 04' 20.17" N
Longitude: 36° 11' 1.75" E
In the 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid Hezbollah militants captured three IDF soldiers; Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Sawaid, while they were patrolling the security fence along the border with Lebanon, and took them across the border. It is n…
Tel Faher (or Golani Lookout) is a former Syrian outpost in the Golan Heights that was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967.
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.
Odem (Hebrew: אֹדֶם or אודם) is an Israeli settlement, moshav shitufi, situated in the northern part of the Golan Heights. It is located on Mount Odem, at a height of 1,090 meters (3,580 ft) above sea level, making it the second-highest town in Isra…
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.
The Shouting Hill is a hill in the Israeli controlled portion of the Golan Heights. The hill is situated near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the area of the Golan that is occupied by Israel. During the Six Day War, Israel captured the majority…
Nimrod (Hebrew: נִמְרוֹד) is a small Israeli settlement, cooperative agricultural community, in the Golan Heights on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, and is the highest such civilian settlement in Israel at 1,110 meters (3,640 ft) above sea leve…
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(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…
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…
The Golan Archaeological Museum is a museum of the archaeological finds of the Golan Heights, located in Katzrin.
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…
Ohalo College (Hebrew: מכללת אוהלו, Mikhlelet Ohalo), also known as the Ohalo College of Education, is an Israeli teacher training college in the Israeli settlement and town of Katzrin in the Golan Heights. The college is supported by the Israeli M…
Keshet (Hebrew: קֶשֶׁת) is an Israeli settlement, moshav shitufi, in the Golan Heights. It was established in 1974 after the Yom Kippur War by Hapoel HaMizrachi near the Syrian city of Quneitra, which had been abandoned and subsequently razed to the…
Kela Alon (Hebrew: קלע אלון) is an Israeli settlement organized as a communal settlement, in the Golan Regional Council, Israel. Until its depopulation in 1967, the site was occupied by the Syrian village of Qanaabé (Kana'beh), which had about 480 …
Alonei HaBashan (Hebrew: אַלּוֹנֵי הַבָּשָׁן) is an Israeli settlement, moshav shitufi, located in the central Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel.
Sha'al (Hebrew: שַׁעַל) is an Israeli settlement and a moshav in the northern Golan Heights. The settlement was built in 1980 when Golan area was a part of the Israeli Military Governorate. In 1981, the area of Golan was unilaterally annexed by Isra…
Kidmat Tzvi (Hebrew: קִדְמַת צְבִי) is an Israeli settlement (moshava) in the central Golan Heights with a population of 375 people. The area was ran over by Israeli Army in the Six Days War and later included by Israel under military occupation. Th…