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    Maresha was an Iron Age city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, whose remains have been excavated at Tell Sandahanna (Arabic name), an archaeological mound...
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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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    1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was preceded by the Iron Age Judahite city of Maresha, the later Hellenistic Marissa, located slightly south of Beit Jibrin's...
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    at Hellenistic Maresha". Strata. 30: 63–74. Stern, Ian (2022). "The Evolution of an Edomite Idumean Identity. Hellenistic Period Maresha as a Case Study"...
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    Shepehla, including the Judahite towns of Azekah, Socho, Goded, Lachish, and Maresha, could be seen from this fort. In the northern Negev, Tel Arad served as...
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    (Scythopolis) Βαιθσάν (Beithsan) Scytopoli بيسان (Beisan) Beth Gubrin /Maresha בית גוברין Ἐλευθερόπολις (Eleutheropolis) Betogabri بيت جبرين (Bayt Jibrin)...
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    Sidonian burial caves in Maresha, dated to the third and second centuries BCE...
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    century, known in Arabic as Khirbet (lit. "ruin") Sandahanna, the mound of Maresha being called Tell Sandahanna. Saint Anne is patroness of unmarried women...
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    the 1st century BC – 2nd-century CE town of Beit Guvrin. the Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a popular tourist destination which includes Hellenistic-period...
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  • experienced destruction, including Maresha, Khirbet el-Rasm, Tel Arad, Khirbet 'Uza and possibly Lachish. The lower city of Maresha and Tel Beersheba were soon...
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    century BCE from sites in Idumaea including Arad, Beer-sheba, Tell Jemmeh, Maresha, and others, indicate a very diverse population that inhabited the district...
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  • Miller Episode: "Shadow Play" 1989 Howard Beach: Making A Case For Murder Maresha Fisher Television film 1990 CBS Schoolbreak Special Holly Episode: "Flour...
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  • Sokhta Cultural 1456  Iraq Erbil Citadel Cultural 1437  Israel Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the...
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  • Governorate Jordan Mareshah מָרֵשָׁה Joshua 15:44; 2 Chronicles 11:8 Tel Maresha Southern District Israel Medeba מֵידְבָא Numbers 21:30; Joshua 13:9 Madaba...
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  • in 2001; the latest inclusion was the network of caves at Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park in 2014. In addition, the Israeli cabinet has put 18 sites...
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  • to be a place-name written in the construct state, meaning, "Maresha of Gath". Maresha is mentioned as the home town of the prophet Micah in the biblical...
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    dovecote interior Columbarium (dovecote) interior wall at Maresha, Israel Columbarium at Tell Maresha (Khirbet es Sandahannah) in Israel Chabutro Columbarium...
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    and some also in Galilee. Examples include: Hurvat Midras, Tel Goded, Maresha, Aboud and others. Near the end of the uprising, many Jews fleeing for...
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    Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, 13 kilometers from Kiryat Gat, encompassing the ruins of Maresha, one of the important...
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    the Idumeans (Edomites). During this campaign Hyrcanus conquered Adora, Maresha and other Idumean towns (Ant.13.257). Hyrcanus then instituted forced conversions...
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  • refer to: Marisa (town), an Indonesian town Marisa, Hellenised name of Maresha, town in Idumea (today in Israel) Marisa (given name), a feminine personal...
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    𐡒𐡃𐡓𐡉𐡍‎ (QDRYN) in Achaemenid and Hellenistic period ostraca found at Maresha. Assyrian records have transcribed in Neo-Assyrian Akkadian various variants...
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  • Marissa can refer to: Maresha or Marissa, an ancient city in Israel Marissa, Illinois, a town in Illinois Marissa Township, St. Clair County, Illinois...
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    turned against the Edomites in the south, captured and destroyed Hebron and Maresha. He then marched on the coast of the Mediterranean, destroyed the altars...
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    Moresheth-Gath — 39 Gezer — 37 Khirbet el-Burj (northwestern Jerusalem) — 24 Maresha — 19 Azekah — 18 Timnah —15 Gibeah — 14 Tel Erani — 13 Hebron — 13 Sokho...
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    conquest of the Levant of the 7th century.[citation needed] Azekah Tel Batash Maresha Beit Jimal Tell Beit Mirsim Beit Shemesh Tel Burna Tel Eton Gezer Imwas...
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  • However, an expert soon noted that two pieces excavated from a cave in Maresha fit the Heliodorus Stele "like a jigsaw puzzle", and hence concluded that...
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    which is also Jamnia"). Jericho (Greek: Ίεριχω); Lydda (Greek: ΛΩΔΗ); Maresha (Greek: ΜΟΡΑΣΘΙ); Modi'im (Greek: ΜΩΔΕΕΙΜ); Nicopolis (Greek: ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΣ);...
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    bored stones that have been discovered in archaeological sites in Africa. Maresha is the Gurage name, also the same word used by the Amhara, for a digging...
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    reign of King Asa of Judah. It was fought in the Valley of Zephath near Maresha in modern-day Israel between the armies of the Kingdom of Judah under the...
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