Talmud places

city in Israel

Tiberias ( ; , ; ) is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 18th century one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed. In it had a population of .

ancient Levantine city

Yavne () is a city in the Central District of Israel. In it had a population of .

Magdala (; ; ) was an ancient Jewish city on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, north of Tiberias. In the Babylonian Talmud it is known as Magdala Nunayya (), and which some historical geographers think may refer to Tarichaea (). It is believed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene. Until the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Palestinian village of al-Majdal () stood at the site of ancient Magdala. The Israeli municipality of Migdal now extends into the area.

thumb|Aerial view of Sepphoris, 2013 thumb|Remains of Crusader/Ottoman tower in Sepphoris, 1875. Note doorway rebuilt under Daher al-Umar. right|thumb|200px|The same Crusader/Ottoman tower after rebuilding. The upper part was used as a school from the early 1900s until 1948.

archaeological site and national park in Israel

Achziv ( ʾAḵzīḇ) or Az-Zeeb () is an ancient site on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel, between the border with Lebanon and the city of Acre. It is located north of Acre on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, within the municipal area of Nahariya. Today it is an Israeli national park.

'''Al-Mada'in' (, ; Māḥozā''; ) was an ancient metropolis situated on the Tigris in what is now Iraq. It was located between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia, and was founded by the Sasanian Empire. The city's name was used by Arabs as a synonym for the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon, in a tradition that continued after the Arab conquest of Iran.

old Babylonian city

ancient city of Phrygia, in modern-day Turkey

depopulated Palestinian town in Hebron, Palestine

Yodfat () is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee, south of Carmiel and in the vicinity of the Atzmon mountain ridge, north of the Beit Netofa Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In it had a population of .

Zanoah () is a moshav in central Israel. Located adjacent to Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .

Palestinian village depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

Farradiyya () was a Palestinian Arab village of 670 located southwest of Safad. In 1949, an Israeli kibbutz called Parod was built atop the ethnically cleansed village.

Burayr () also spelled Bureir, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, northeast of Gaza City. Its population in 1945 was 2,740. The village was the site of a massacre and it was depopulated and destroyed during the 1948 Palestine war as part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. It had an average elevation of .

The synagogue of the Jewish community Eshtemoa in the Land of Israel

Zikrin (), pronounced Dhikrin, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict, depopulated in the 1948 Palestine War. The site is located about northwest of Beit Gubrin and sits at a mean elevation of above sea-level, its access somewhat impeded by hedges of buckthorn and cactus. The entire site is dotted with grottoes and caves, and razed structures. ==History== The village was called Kefar Dikrina in Roman times. Geographer, Adolf Neubauer mentions the village as formerly being called Kefar Dhikrin () in several Rabbinic sources, including the Babylonian Talmud. Neubauer cites one

archaeological site in Israel

Kohlit or Kohalit () is a place name used in rabbinic literature, and more famously in the Copper Scroll, a unique "treasure map" discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). It is unknown whether the two sources are referring to the same place.