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    Incense RouteDesert Cities in the Negev is a World Heritage-designated area near the end of the Incense Route in the Negev, southern Israel, which...
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    Pre-Islamic Arab trade "Incense RouteDesert Cities in the Negev". UNESCO. "Traders of the Gold and Incense Road". Embassy of the Republic of Yemen, Berlin...
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    Mampsis (category Populated places established in the 1st century BC)
    The stones are carefully chiseled and the arches that support the ceiling are remarkably well constructed. The Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev...
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    Shivta (category Ramat Negev Regional Council)
    June 2005, as part of the Incense Route and the Desert Cities of the Negev, together with Haluza/Elusa, Avdat and Mamshit/Mampsis. The name Shivta is a modern...
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  • Hazor Tel Be'er Sheva Incense RouteDesert Cities in the Negev Masada Acre Tel Aviv Nahal Me'arot Beit Guvrin Beit She'arim The United Nations Educational...
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    Elusa (Haluza) (category Ramat Negev Regional Council)
    the A. Negev encyclopedia entry and a number of scholarly comments and links, as well as historical texts. Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev...
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    Avdat (category Ramat Negev Regional Council)
    in the Negev desert in southern Israel. It was inhabited with intermissions between the 3rd century BCE and the mid-7th century CE by Nabataeans, in their...
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    The Negev (/ˈnɛɡɛv/ NEG-ev; Hebrew: הַנֶּגֶב, romanized: hanNégev) or Negeb (Arabic: ٱلنَّقَب, romanized: an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region...
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    the Gold and Incense Road". Message of the Republic of Yemen, Berlin. Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. "Incense RouteDesert Cities in...
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    Metzad Mahmal (category Ramat Negev Regional Council)
    is part of the Incense Route that runs between Petra and Avdat. Ma'ale Mahmal is the steep section, where the Incense Route overcomes the main natural...
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    of a first burial. Incense RouteDesert Cities in the NegevThe Negev incense route located between Jordan's Petra and Gaza, the Nabataeans have built...
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    Nabataeans (category Arabs in the Roman Empire)
    Hegra (Mada'in Saleh) Jabal al-Lawz Negev Desert, Israel Incense RouteDesert Cities in the Negev: Obodas (Avdat), city with Nabataean temple Elusa (Haluza)...
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    Petra (category Roman towns and cities in Jordan)
    site in northwest Saudi Arabia Bedul – Bedouin tribe in Petra, Jordan Incense RouteDesert Cities in the Negev – UNESCO World Heritage Site in Negev, Israel...
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  • "Hyrcanian forests". UNESCO. Retrieved 27 Aug 2019. "Incense RouteDesert Cities in the Negev". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 Aug 2011. "Land of Frankincense"...
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    Ir Ovot (category Villages in Israel)
    Ovot Arava.com (in Hebrew) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ir Ovot. Biblical archaeology Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev Iudaea Province...
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    the Red Sea–Dead Sea Conduit (calling it the "Peace Conduit"), or as it is called the Two Seas Canal in 1998. and the Incense RouteDesert Cities in...
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  • Heritage Site in the list is the Galápagos Islands. The 24th session in 2000 inscribed the most with 61 entries, while the 13th session in 1989 only inscribed...
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  • – The Incense RouteDesert Cities in the Negev (which includes the four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta) and the Biblical Tels of...
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    Ramat HaNegev Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית רמת הנגב, lit. 'Negev Heights Regional Council') is a regional council in the Negev desert in Israel...
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  • of these areas and the ancient trade routes. They established the so-called "desert towns" located along the Negev incense route at Avdat, Mampsis, Rehovot...
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    Nabataean architecture (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    The stones are carefully chiseled and the arches that support the ceiling are remarkably well constructed. The Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev...
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    Makhtesh Ramon (category World Heritage Sites in Israel)
    الرمان; lit. The Ruman Wadi) is a geological feature of Israel's Negev desert. Located some 85 km south of the city of Beersheba, the landform is the world's...
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  • [clarification needed] The port of Gaza was at the end of the Nabataean spice and incense trade route, dealing in herbs, spices incense, drapery, glass and...
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    Qedarites (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    from the eastern limits of the Nile Delta in the west till Transjordan in the east and covered much of southern Judea (then known as Idumea), the Negev and...
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    Kenites (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    settled in the towns and cities in the northeastern Negev in an area known as the "Negev of the Kenites" near Arad, and played an important role in the history...
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    Ein Avdat (category Ancient churches in the Holy Land)
    Arabic pronunciation: [/ʕajn ʕab.da/]) or Ein Ovdat is a canyon in the Negev Desert of Israel, south of Kibbutz Sde Boker. Archaeological evidence shows...
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  • precious stones. Tiglath-Pileser III attacked Gaza in order to control trade along the Incense Route. The Achaemenid Persian Empire (559-330 BCE) incorporated...
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    the 'Araba to the west into the desert tracts of the Negev. In their early history, before establishing urban centers, the Nabataeans demonstrated on several...
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    Hegra (Mada'in Salih) (category Archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia)
    of incense, myrrh and spices. Situated on the overland caravan route and connected to the Red Sea port of Egra Kome, Hegra, as it was known among the Nabateans...
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    Edom (category States and territories established in the 13th century BC)
    along the Incense Route. Astride the King's Highway, the Edomites were one of several states in the region for whom trade was vital due to the scarcity...
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