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WikiProject Israel Resource Centre This is a project to organize resource material related to the geography and historical geography of the Land of Israel, aka Palestine (region), from a historical perspective, culled from a number of travelers, researchers, archaeologists, and historical geographers, and their works, with their names arranged here in alphabetical order
The map is printed on four sheets. The Land of Israel appears at the center of the map, the Mediterranean Sea at its top left side, the Dead Sea at its right, and a small map of the old city of Jerusalem at its bottom right - with illustrations of the old city's streets and the Temple Mount. A geographical and historical contextual description ...
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
Jerusalem during the Second Temple period describes the history of the city during the existence there of the Second Temple, from the return to Zion under Cyrus the Great (c. 538 BCE) to the siege and destruction the city by Titus during the First Jewish–Roman War in 70 CE. [1]
Bethlehem [a] is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the State of Palestine, located about ten kilometres (six miles) south of Jerusalem.It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate, and as of 2017 had a population of 28,591 people. [5]
History books about Israel (1 C, 12 P) I. Books about Israeli intelligence agencies (1 C, 5 P) Israeli–Palestinian conflict books (1 C, 62 P) K. Books about the ...
Founded in 1958, it is the principal publisher of cartographic material in Israel. [2] Carta publishes Israel's national atlas, as well as road maps for motorists, a bilingual gazetteer ( The Toponomasticon: The Book of Geographical Names ) [ 3 ] which uses material from Israel's Survey of Israel geographical database, 1:500,0000 scale maps of ...
' Travel book through Holy Scripture ') of Heinrich Bünting (1545–1606), a German Protestant pastor, featured such a map. [24] His book was very popular, and it provided "the most complete available summary of biblical geography and described the geography of the Holy Land by tracing the travels of major figures from the Old and New testaments."