What city, located near the Israeli settlement of Vered Yeriho, is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world?
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Vered Yeriho Vered Yeriho (Hebrew: וֶרֶד יְרִיחוֹ‎ , "lit." Rose of Jericho) is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located near Jericho in the Jordan Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megilot Regional Council. In 2016 it had a population of 252 .
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Jericho Jericho ( ; Arabic: أريحا‎ ‎ "Arīḥā " ] ; Hebrew: יְרִיחוֹ‎ "Yeriḥo ") is a city in the Palestinian Territories and is located near the Jordan River in the West Bank. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate, and is governed by the Fatah faction of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2007, it had a population of 18,346. The city was occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, and has been held under Israeli occupation since 1967; administrative control was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in 1994. It is believed to be one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world and the city with the oldest known protective wall in the world. It was thought to have the oldest stone tower in the world as well, but excavations at Tell Qaramel in Syria have discovered stone towers that are even older.
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Shapsugs The Shapsug (Adyghe: шапсыгъ ] , Russian: шапсуги , Turkish: "Şapsığlar" , Arabic: الشابسوغ‎ ‎ , Hebrew: שפסוגים‎ ‎ ), also known as the Shapsugh or "Shapsogh", are one of the twelve tribes of the Circassian people. In Russia, the remaining Shapsug population mainly live in the Tuapsinsky District (Tuapse) of Krasnodar Krai, Lazarevsky City District of Sochi, and in the Republic of Adygea, which were a small part of historical Circassia. However, the major Shapsug communities are found in Turkey, Israel (Kfar Kama), Jordan (Amman, Naour, Marj Al-Hamam, Wadi Al Seer), Iraq, Syria, Western Europe, and the United States of America. The first Circassians to settle in Amman were from the Shapsug tribe, and as a result the Shapsug's neighbourhood is considered the oldest neighbourhood in the Capital Amman and was the down town of it; however, other Circassians from the Kabardian, Abadzekh, and Bzhedug tribes also settled in Amman afterwards.
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Northernmost settlements Some of the northernmost settlements in the world are:
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Old town The old town of a city or town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins after thorough renovations. There are many places throughout the world named "old town" (and this is sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:
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Nablus Nablus (Arabic: نابلس‎ ‎ "Nāblus " ] , Hebrew: שכם‎ "Šəḵem ", Biblical "Shechem" "Škem", Greek: Νεάπολις Νeapolis) is a city in the northern West Bank, approximately 49 km north of Jerusalem, (approximately 63 km by road), with a population of 126,132. Located between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center, containing the An-Najah National University, one of the largest Palestinian institutions of higher learning, and the Palestinian stock-exchange.
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Allar, Jerusalem Allar (Arabic: علار‎ ‎ ) or 'Allar el-Fawqa ("Upper Allar") was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem near Wadi Surar ("Valley of Pebbles"), along "Wadi Tannur". The name was shared by the twin village of Allar al-Sifla ("Lower Allar") or Khirbat al-Tannur, with official imperial ledgers often listing them both under the single entry of Allar.
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Berothah Berothah (Hebrew "bērôṯâ") is a city named in Ezekiel 47:16, located on the northern boundary of the ideal state of Israel. It is probably to be identified with Berothai "(bērôṯay)", an ancient Syrian city ruled by Hadadezer bar Rehob, king of Zobah, in the early tenth century BCE. According to II Samuel 8:8, King David of Israel pillaged the city of a great quantity of bronze or copper.
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Pella, Jordan Pella (Ancient Greek: Πέλλα, also known in Arabic as "Tabaqat Fahl", طبقة فحل) is found in northwestern Jordan, 27.4 km (17 miles) south of the Sea of Galilee. Pella represents one of ten Decapolis cities that were founded during the Hellenistic period and became powerful under Roman jurisdiction. With a history extending back into the Bronze Age, Pella expanded to its largest state during the reign of the Roman Empire. Pella is located in the Jordan Valley, 130 km (80 miles) north of Amman, and is half an hour by car from Irbid, in the north of the country. Today, the city's sizable collection of ruins are excavated by archeologists, and attract thousands of tourists annually.
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Judea Judea or Judæa ( ; from Hebrew: יהודה‎ ‎ , "Yəhuda", "Yəhûḏāh", Greek: Ἰουδαία , ; Latin: "Iūdaea" , Arabic: يهودا‎ ‎ , "Yahudia") is the ancient Hebrew and Israelite biblical, the exonymic Roman/English, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of Canaan-Israel. The name originates from the Hebrew name "Yehudah", a son of the Jewish patriarch Jacob/Israel, and Yehudah's progeny forming the biblical Israelite tribe of Judah (Yehudah) and later the associated Kingdom of Judah, which the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia dates from 934 until 586 BCE. The name of the region continued to be incorporated through the Babylonian conquest, Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods as Yehud, Yehud Medinata, Hasmonean Judea, and consequently Herodian Judea and Roman Judea, respectively.
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New Jerusalem In the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible, New Jerusalem (, "Jehovah-shammah", or "[where] YHWH [is] there") is Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centered on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era. The prophecy is recorded by Ezekiel as having been received on Yom Kippur of the year 3372 of the Hebrew calendar. It will be inhabited by people to live eternally in spirit form, created by God as a gift to mankind. Not everyone will reside in New Jerusalem, as most will possibly stay on Earth.
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Mitzpe Yeriho Mitzpe Yeriho (also spelled “Mitzpeh Yericho”) (Hebrew: מִצְפֵּה יְרִיחוֹ‎ , "lit." Jericho Lookout) is a religious Israeli settlement in the Judaean Desert. Located 20 km east of Jerusalem and 10 km east of Ma'ale Adummim along Highway 1 in the Judean desert, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. In 2016 it had a population of 2,319 .
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Qesem Cave Qesem Cave is a Lower Paleolithic archeological site 12 km east of Tel Aviv in Israel. Early humans were occupying the site by 382,000 until c. 200,000 years ago.
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Or Akiva Or Akiva (Hebrew: אוֹר עֲקִיבָא‎ ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, on the country's coastal plain. It is located just inland from the ancient port city of Caesarea and the Mediterranean Sea, and to the north of the city of Hadera. It is 30 mi south of Haifa and 24 mi north of Tel Aviv. In 2016 it had a population of 17,568 . The city's logo is inscribed with a Biblical verse from Job 8:7: "Your beginnings will be humble, so prosperous will your future be."
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Proto-city A proto-city is a large village or town of the Neolithic such as Jericho and Çatalhöyük, and also any prehistoric settlement which has both rural and urban features. A proto-city is distinguished from a true city in that it lacks planning and centralized rule. For example, Jericho evidently had a class system, but no roads, while Çatalhöyük apparently lacked social stratification. This is what distinguishes them from the first city-states of the early Mesopotamian cities in the 4th millennium B.C.
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City of David The City of David (Hebrew: (Hebrew: עיר דוד‎ , "Ir David"; literal translation to Arabic: مدينة داوود‎ ‎ , "Madina Dawud", common Arabic name: وادي حلوه , "Wadi Hilweh") is an Israeli settlement and the archaeological site which is speculated to compose the original urban core of ancient Jerusalem. First suggested in 1920, the name was used officially from the 1970s, following the capture of East Jerusalem by Israel, but today the name is questioned in the archaeological academic community. In 1997 management of the park was taken over by Ir David Foundation. Although it is located within the Jerusalem Municipality, it is considered a settlement, having been built on land in the West Bank that was occupied by and annexed to Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War and 1980 Jerusalem Law. The international community regards Israeli settlements illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. It is best known for its Iron Age structures attributed to Judean kings, and it also contains older Canaanite infrastructure dated to the Middle Bronze Age.
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Tabun Cave The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012. The cave was occupied intermittently during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic (500,000 to around 40,000 years ago). In the course of this period, deposits of sand, silt and clay of up to 25 m accumulated in the cave. Excavations suggest that it features one of the longest sequences of human occupation in the Levant.
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Caesarea Maritima Caesarea Maritima (also Caesarea Palestinae; Greek: Παράλιος Καισάρεια , "Parálios Kaisáreia") is an Israeli National Park in the Sharon plain, including the ancient remains of the coastal city of Caesarea.
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Dor, Israel Dor (Hebrew: דּוֹר‎ ) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2016 it had a population of 410 . It was named after the ancient Phoenician city of Dor, which was inhabited by the tribe of Manasseh in the Israelite period.
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Es Skhul Es-Skhul (Arabic: السخول‎ ‎ , meaning kid, young goat) is a prehistoric cave site situated 20 km south of the city of Haifa, Israel, and around 3 km from the Mediterranean Sea. The site was first excavated by Dorothy Garrod during summer of 1928. The excavation revealed the first evidence of the late Epipaleolithic Natufian culture, characterized by the presence of numerous microlith stone tools, human burials and ground stone tools. Skhul also represents an area where Neanderthals - present in the region from 200,000 to 45,000 years ago - lived alongside these humans dating to 100,000 years ago. The cave also has Middle Palaeolithic layers.
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Abusir Abusir (Arabic: ابو صير‎ ‎   ] ; Egyptian "pr wsjr"; Coptic: "busiri ", "the House or Temple of Osiris"; Ancient Greek: Βούσιρις ) is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality – specifically, an extensive necropolis of the Old Kingdom period, together with later additions – in the vicinity of the modern capital Cairo. The name is also that of a neighbouring village in the Nile Valley, whence the site takes its name. Abusir is located several kilometres north of Saqqara and, like it, served as one of the main elite cemeteries for the ancient Egyptian capital city of Memphis. Several other villages in northern and southern Egypt are named Abusir or Busiri.
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Israeli settlement Israeli settlements are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively of Jewish ethnicity, built predominantly on lands within areas of what the international community call the Palestinian territories, which Israel has militarily occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War, and partly on lands considered Syrian territory also militarily occupied by Israel since the 1967 war. Such settlements within Palestinian territories currently exist in Area C of the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, and within Syrian territory in the Golan Heights.