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    Shivta (Hebrew: שבטה), originally Sobata (Greek: Σόβατα) or Subeita (Arabic: شبطا), is an ancient city in the Negev Desert of Israel located 43 kilometers...
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    both the Incense Road and spice trade routes: Avdat, Haluza, Mamshit, and Shivta. As a group, these desert cities demonstrate the lucrative trade in frankincense...
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    Route - Desert Cities in the Negev, including Mampsis, Haluza, Avdat, and Shivta, were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in June 2005. The Medieval...
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    temple Elusa (Haluza), town, road station Mampshis (Mamshit), road station Shivta, Byzantine agricultural town with contested Nabataean, Roman precursor South...
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  • towns" located along the Negev incense route at Avdat, Mampsis, Rehovot, Shivta, Nessana, and especially Elusa, which was to become the new capital and...
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    located along the Negev incense route at Avdat (Oboda), Mamshit (Mampsis), Shivta (Sobata), Haluza (Elusa), and Nitzana (Nessana).[dubious – discuss] This...
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    UNESCO declared Haluza a World Heritage Site along with Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta. The city is called 'Chellous' (Χελλοὺς) in the Greek text of Judith, i...
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    Byzantine-period winepress from Shivta (Sobota), Israel, with treading floor and collection vats...
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    Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev (Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta) Type Cultural Criteria iii, v Designated 2005 (29th session) Reference no...
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    official citation reads: The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev...
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    a number of well-known national parks, such as Gan HaShlosha, Caesarea, Shivta and Avdat. Following the ecologically disastrous drying of Lake Hula and...
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    55th Battalion. He later commanded an Artillery Corps Officers School at Shivta Base. In 1997, he was appointed head of the Chief of Staff Office, serving...
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    Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev (Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta) Type Cultural Criteria iii, v Designated 2005 (29th session) Reference no...
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  • Middle East. This has been documented by studying ancient trash mounds at Shivta, Elusa and Nessana, which showed a sharp peak in the presence of grape pips...
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    (Ktzi'ot Junction) Entrance to Ktzi'ot Prison Shivta 22 14 צומת שבטה (Shivta Junction) Entrance to Shivta Ashalim 35 22 צומת אשלים (Ashalim Junction) Road...
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    the Ramon Crater or the UNESCO world heritage Nabataean Incense Route (Shivta, Avdat, Mamshit). Eilat, Israel's southernmost city, located on the Red...
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    soil fertigation in the desert: A pigeon tower structure near Byzantine Shivta, Israel". Journal of Arid Environments. 145: 81–89. Bibcode:2017JArEn.145...
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  • generating electricity using nuclear power. Since the 1980s, a site near Shivta in the Negev desert has been designated as the future location of a nuclear...
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    at the Field Artillery School (Hebrew: ביסל"ת, Bislat), better known as Shivta, after the ancient Nabataean town of the same name. New recruits go through...
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    early 6th century, by studying ancient trash mounds at the settlements of Shivta, Elusa and Nessana. There is a sharp peak in the presence of grape pips...
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  • Negev (which includes the four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta) and the Biblical Tels of Tel Megiddo, Tel Hazor and Tel Be'er Sheva are...
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    החברה לחקירת ארץ ישראל ועתיקותיה Israel Exploration Society meeting at Shivta, Israel, 1950s Formation 1913 Founder David Yellin Founded at Ottoman Palestine...
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    century CE. Among the Nabatean cities found in the Negev (Avdat, Haluza, Shivta) Mamshit is the smallest (10 acres), but the best preserved and restored...
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  • Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve Qesem Cave Qumran Ramat Rahel Safed Sebastia Shivta Shuqba cave Solomon's Pools Susiya White Mosque (Ramla) Tell Abu Hawam Tel...
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    interpretation suggests that the Zin River was located in the area of Halutza, Shivta, and Nitzana, an area that constitutes the drainage basin of today's Zin...
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    Route - Desert Cities in the Negev, including Mampsis, Haluza, Avdat, and Shivta, were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in June 2005. Bostra Located...
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    Turonian. The Shivta Formation is composed of, "limey dolomite and forms a typical cliff morphology with many caves". The age of the Shivta Formation is...
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    Jerusalem (1968-1969), survey and excavations of the Byzantine city of Shivta in the Negev Desert (1978-1982), excavations of the Late Hellenistic-Early...
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    excavations. Immediately after the Habur Survey he was in Palestine at Shivta and also possibly early in 1936 at Auja-el-Hafir, the ancient town of Nessana...
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  • Junction (443, 446) Shimshon Junction (38, 44) Shi'on Junction (99, 999) Shivta Junction (211, local road) Shizafon Junction (12, 40) Shluhot Junction (90...
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