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The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley ( Hebrew: בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּן Bīqʿāt haYardēn, Arabic: الغور Al-Ghor or Al-Ghawr ), [citation needed] also called the Syro-African Depression, is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. This geographic region includes the entire length ...
University of Petra (UOP) is a private university in Amman, Jordan. The University offers the Bachelor and Master Program. The University is located on the airport road. It offers an applied education.
University of the Pacific ( Pacific or UOP) is a private university originally founded as a Methodist -affiliated university with its main campus in Stockton, California, and graduate campuses in San Francisco and Sacramento. It was the first university in the state of California, [4] the first independent coeducational campus in California, and the first conservatory of music and first ...
The Jordan Valley ( Arabic: غَوْر الأُرْدُنّ, romanized : Ghawr al-Urdunn; Hebrew: עֵמֶק הַיַרְדֵּן, romanized : Emek HaYarden) forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley. Unlike most other river valleys, the term "Jordan Valley" often applies just to the lower course of the Jordan River, from the spot where it exits the Sea of Galilee in the north, to the end of ...
Geography of Jordan. Coordinates: 31°00′N 36°00′E. A map of Jordan. Jordan is situated geographically in West Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq, northwest of Saudi Arabia, east of Israel and the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. The area is also referred to as the Middle or Near East.
The Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan, commonly known as the " Johnston Plan ", was a plan for the unified water resource development of the Jordan Valley. It was negotiated and developed by United States Special Representative Eric Johnston between 1953 and 1955, and based on an earlier plan commissioned by United Nations Relief and Works ...
Gilgal I ( Hebrew: גלגל) is an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, dated to the early Neolithic period. The site is located 8 mi (13 km) north of ancient Jericho. [1] The features and artifacts unearthed at Gilgal I shed important light on agriculture in the Levant. [2] The by far oldest domesticated figs found anywhere in the world were recovered from an incinerated house ...
Tell Abu al-Kharaz is situated on a strategic point, approximately one kilometer north to where the perennial stream of Wadi al-Yabis enters the Jordan Valley. It lies in a region known in biblical times as Gilead.