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    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...
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  • script is the Zayit Stone discovered on a wall at Tel Zayit, in the Beth Guvrin Valley in the lowlands of ancient Judea in 2005, about 50 km (31 mi)...
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    al-Muqaddasi ('the Jerusalemite') was still referring to part of the region of Beth Guvrin by this name. In late antiquity, the term "Daroma" referred to the region...
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  • Beit Guvrin may refer to a succession of settlements and their archaeological remains, in proper chronology: Maresha, later Marisa; and Beth Gabra (also...
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    southeast of the Elah Valley and 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) northeast of Beth Guvrin. A rescue excavation was carried out at Hurvat Ethri in 1999–2000 on...
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    Bayt Jibrin (redirect from Beth Gibelin)
    built-up area; and the Roman and Byzantine city of Beth Gabra, known from the Talmud as Beit Guvrin (also Gubrin or Govrin, Hebrew: בית גוברין, romanized: Beit...
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    the city, as opposed to many other places in the vicinity such as Beit Guvrin,[dubious – discuss] Maresha, and others.[citation needed][dubious – discuss]...
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    the demise of Maresha, the neighbouring Idumean/Jewish town of Beth Gabra or Beit Guvrin succeeded it as the main settlement in the area. Shaken by two...
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    stood on the much-travelled ancient road connecting Eleutheropolis (Beth Guvrin, later Bayt Jibrin) with Jerusalem, about midway between the two towns...
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    Caesarea to Beersheba via Antipatris, Lod (then called Diospolis), Beit Guvrin (called Eleutheropolis), from there it went up to Hebron and went down south...
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    Sefer/Modi'in Illit synagogue (1st century BCE) at Khirbet Badd 'Isa, Ascent of Beth-Horon, see here and here. Naburiya was a Jewish village in the Galilee during...
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  • Yitzhak 1943 Religious Kibbutz Movement Beit Alfa 1922 Kibbutz Movement Beit Guvrin 1949 Kibbutz Movement Beit HaArava 1939 Kibbutz Movement Beit HaEmek 1949...
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    a short time? In the early 1990s, an experiment was conducted near Beit Guvrin, where teenagers were asked to hew a chalk tunnel, 1.5 meters deep, about...
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    of the Judaean Mountains from Highway 35 at Nehusha Junction near Beit Guvrin to Highway 1 at Sha'ar HaGai Interchange. Along many stretches, it follows...
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    Palmach members founded new kibbutzim. In 1949 they set up Bar'am, Beit Guvrin, Nir Yitzhak (named in honour of Yitzhak Sadeh), Palmachim, Re'im, Rosh...
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    identified as the biblical site of Adullam, mentioned in 1 Samuel 22:2. Beit Guvrin: a modern kibbutz in the Lakhish region, which was built near the site of...
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  • JSTOR 4465327. Amos Kloner, Michael Cohen and Alain Hübsch (2001). "Bet Guvrin, 1998–1999". Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel....
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  • Atlit fortress Anim Bar'am Synagogue Beit Alpha Beit Guvrin Bethsaida Beth Shean (Scythopolis) Beth She'arim Belvoir Fortress Caesarea Maritima Capernaum...
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    published than Umm el-Umdan (Modi'in) site; near modern Modi'in, Ascent of Beth-Horon Horvat 'Ethri/Hurvat Itri Wadi Qelt Synagogue at Tulul Abu el-Alayiq...
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    was founded on the site. Zekharia is located off the road between Beit Guvrin and the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. It is 268 meters above sea level. It is...
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  • 31°36′19″N 34°53′54″E / 31.60528°N 34.89833°E / 31.60528; 34.89833 Beit Guvrin (kibbutz) al-Jura Gaza 4 November 1948 2,807 12,224 Yoav Some houses 31°39′54″N...
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