Yarmuk (river)
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The Yarmuk River is the largest tributary of the Jordan River. It runs in Jordan, Syria and Israel, and drains much of the Hauran plateau. Its main tributaries are the wadis of 'Allan and Ruqqad from
Yarmuk River near the Naharayim/Baqura area
Yarmouk River
Railway bridge over the Yarmouk River, destroyed during the Night of the Bridges in June 1946
Israeli-Jordanian border at the confluence of the Jordan and Yarmuk rivers
Golan Heights
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The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria, the majority of which has been occupied and administered by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. It is bor
Yarmuk (river)
…Jordan, measuring 30 ft (9.1 m) in breadth and 5 ft (1.5 m) in depth. Yarmuk forms a natural border between the plains to the north — Hauran, Bashan and Golan — and the Gilead mountains to the south. Thus it has often served as boundary line between political entities. The Yarmukian is a Pottery Neolithic…
Temple of Pan at Banias and the white-domed shrine of Nabi Khadr in the background
Ruins of the ancient Jewish city of Gamla, home to one of the earliest known synagogues. The city was besieged and destroyed by the Romans in 71 CE, during the First Jewish–Roman War.
Church of Deir Qeruh
Reconstructed synagogue at Umm el-Qanatir