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Tiberias is located mid-way along the western shore of the Sea of Galilee (Yam Kinneret, Bahr Ṭabarīya) (c. 206 m below sea level). The ancient city stretched for about 1500 m along a narrow plain, some 600 m wide in the north but narrowing to less than 200 m in the south, between the sea and the st...

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Hauptverfasser:	David Stacey, Ariel Berman, Ayala Lester
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	Tiberias is located mid-way along the western shore of the Sea of Galilee (Yam Kinneret, Bahr Ṭabarīya) (c. 206 m below sea level). The ancient city stretched for about 1500 m along a narrow plain, some 600 m wide in the north but narrowing to less than 200 m in the south, between the sea and the steep, basaltic scarp of the Jordan Rift Valley, which rises, in places vertically, to a peak known in Arabic asQasr Bint al-Malik(‘Palace of the daughter of the king’) and in Hebrew asHar(‘Mount’) Berenice, whose summit is almost at sea