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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.
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. Today, it is identified with El-Koursi or Kursi.
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 ...
Afek Junction (Tel Aviv – Rosh HaAyin Line, Eastern Line) Na'an Junction (Tel Aviv– Beersheba line, Tel Aviv – Beit Shemesh line) Tel Baruch Junction ( Tel Aviv–Haifa line, Tel Aviv–Rosh HaAyin Line) Remez Junction (Tel Aviv–Haifa line, Eastern Line). To become flying junction in the future. Flying junctions.
Mount of Beatitudes. Coordinates: 32°52′56.04″N 35°33′18.61″E. Mount of Beatitudes, seen from Capernaum. The Mount of Beatitudes ( Hebrew: הר האושר, Har HaOsher) is a hill in northern Israel, in the Korazim Plateau. It is the traditional site of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount .
Ancient synagogue at Chorazin. Coordinates: 32°54′40″N35°33′46″E. Date of depopulation. May 4, 1948. Chorazin ( Greek: Χοραζίν / koʊˈreɪzɪn /; also Chorazain) or Korazim ( Hebrew: כורזים; also Chorizim) was an ancient village in the Roman and Byzantine periods, best known from the Christian Gospels. It stood on the ...
The area that came under Israeli control as a result of the war consists of two geologically distinct areas: the Golan Heights proper, with a surface of 1,070 km 2 (410 sq mi), and the slopes of the Mt. Hermon range, with a surface of 100 km 2 (39 sq mi). The new ceasefire line was named the Purple Line.
Etymology. The region's Hebrew name is גָּלִיל, meaning 'district' or 'circle'. The Hebrew form used in Book of Isaiah 9:1 (or 8:23 in different Biblical versions) is in the construct state, leading to גְּלִיל הַגּוֹיִם "Galilee of the nations", which refers to gentiles who settled there at the time that the book was written, either by their own volition or as a result ...