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It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until its Syrian population fled and their homes were destroyed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. [3] It is located at the foot of Mount Hermon, north of the Golan Heights, the classical Gaulanitis, [4] in the part occupied by Israel.
After being repelled in the Second Battle of Mount Hermon, the IDF recaptured both the formerly Israeli-occupied sector and the pre-Yom Kippur War Syrian-controlled sector on October 21, 1973, during Operation Dessert, [39] also known as the Third battle of Mount Hermon. Apple exporte from Israel to Syria, at the request of the IRC and secured ...
The Temples of Mount Hermon are around thirty [1] Roman shrines and Roman temples that are dispersed around the slopes of Mount Hermon in Lebanon, Israel and Syria. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A few temples are built on former buildings of the Phoenician & Hellenistic era, but nearly all are considered to be of Roman construction and were largely abandoned ...
Nimrod Fortress. The Nimrod Fortress or Nimrod Castle (Arabic: قلعة الصبيبة Qal'at al-Subeiba, "Castle of the Large Cliff", later Qal'at Namrud, "Nimrod's Castle"; Hebrew: מבצר נמרוד, Mivtzar Nimrod, "Nimrod's Fortress") is a castle built by the Ayyubids and greatly enlarged by the Mamluks, situated on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, on a ridge rising about 800 m (2600 ...
The Banias (Arabic: نهر بانياس, romanized: Nahr Baniyas; Hebrew: נחל חרמון, romanized: Nahal Hermon) [3] is a river flowing from the Golan Heights to Israel. It is the easternmost of the three main northern tributaries of the Jordan River ; together with the Dan River and the Hasbani River , it forms the Jordan River's upper ...
Mount Hermon (Arabic: جبل الشيخ, Jabal el-Shaykh, Hebrew: הר חרמון, Har Hermon) 2,814 metres (9,232 ft) [1: Parts of Mount Hermon's southern slopes fall within the northern Golan Heights. Mount Hermonit (Hebrew: הר חרמונית, Har Hermonit)
The site features a Roman temple and settlement that has been included in a group of Temples of Mount Hermon. [7] The ruins of a second Ancient Greek temple were also found nearby. The Roman temple featured an altar carved with a relief of Helios, the sun god. [8] The shrine at Har Senaim was carved out of solid bedrock. [9]
Mas'ade is one of the four remaining Druze-Syrian communities on the Israeli-occupied side of the Golan Heights and on Mount Hermon, together with Majdal Shams, Ein Qiniyye and Buq'ata. Geographically a distinction is made between the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon, the boundary being marked by the Sa'ar Stream; however, administratively they ...