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Kursi ( Medieval Greek: Κυρσοί, Hebrew: כורסי, Arabic: الكرسي) is an archaeological site in the Golan Heights containing the ruins of a Byzantine monastery and identified by tradition as the site of Jesus ' "Miracle of the Swine". [1] Part of the archaeological site is now an Israeli national park.
National parks of Israel are declared historic sites or nature reserves, which are mostly operated and maintained by the National Nature and Parks Authority. As of 2015, Israel maintains 81 national parks and more than 400 nature reserves, many of them in the occupied West Bank, that protect 2,500 species of indigenous wild plants, 32 species ...
Kursi National Park Map of Roman Israel showing Gadara and Gerasa Gergesa , also Gergasa ( Γέργεσα in Byzantine greek ) or the Country of the Gergesenes , is a place on the eastern ( Golan Heights ) side of the Sea of Galilee located at some distance to the ancient Decapolis cities of Gadara and Gerasa .
Hippos ( Ancient Greek: Ἵππος, lit. 'horse') [1] or Sussita ( Aramaic, Hebrew: סוסיתא) is an ancient city and archaeological site located on a hill 2 km east of the Sea of Galilee, attached by a topographical saddle to the western slopes of the Golan Heights . Hippos was a Hellenistic city in the northern Jordan Valley, [2] and a ...
Mount Carmel National Park. Coordinates: 32.7554°N 35.0024°E. The entrance to the park on Road 7212 near the town of Nesher. Mount Carmel National Park ( Hebrew: פארק הכרמל, Park HaKarmel) is Israel's largest national park, extending over most of the Carmel mountain range and containing over 10,000 hectares of pine, eucalyptus, and ...
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority ( Hebrew: רשות הטבע והגנים, Rashut Hateva Vehaganim; Arabic: سلطة الطبيعة والحدائق) is an Israeli government organization that manages nature reserves and national parks in Israel, the Golan Heights and parts of the West Bank. The organization was founded in April 1998 ...
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, containing a large network of caves recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The national park includes the remains of the historical towns of Maresha, one of the important towns of Judah during the First Temple Period, and Bayt Jibrin, a depopulated Palestinian town known as Eleutheropolis in the Roman era.
Ein Hemed is a national park and nature reserve in the hills seven kilometres west of modern Jerusalem [citation needed] and some 12 kilometres west of the Old City. [1] It is also known by the Latin name it received from the Crusaders, Aqua Bella, [2] and as Khirbat Iqbalā in Arabic. [3] The park is located on the path of an old Roman road ...