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Judaean Mountains
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mountain range in Israel and the West Bank
Key facts
- Peak
- Mount Nabi Yunis (Mount Halhul)
- Elevation
- 1,026 m (3,366 ft)
- Parent range
- Great Rift Valley
- Rock age
- Late Cretaceous
- Rock type s
- Terra rossa , limestone
- Easiest route
- Road of the Patriarchs (the ridge route)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain range
- Part of
- Great Rift Valley
- Country
- Palestine
- Elevation
- 1026
- Highest point
- Mount Nabi Yunis
- Material used
- sedimentary rock
- Image
- Panorama from beth meir 5.jpg
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- Judaean Mountains
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Encyclopedic overview
The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills (Hebrew: הרי יהודה, romanized: Harei Yehuda) or the Hebron Hills (Arabic: تلال الخليل, romanized: Tilāl Al-ḵalīl or Arabic: جبال الخليل, romanized: Jibāl Al-ḵalīl, lit. 'Hebron Mountains',) is a mountain range in the West Bank of Palestine, and Israel where Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron and several other biblical sites are located. The mountains reach a height of 1,026 metres (3,366 ft). The Judean Mountains can be divided into a number of sub-regions, including the Mount Hebron ridge, the Jerusalem ridge and the Judean slopes.
The Judaean Mountains formed the heartland of the Kingdom of Judah (930–586 BCE), where the earliest Jewish settlements emerged, and from which Jews are originally descended.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judaean Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.