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Korazim Plateau, the Glossary

The Korazim Plateau (רמת כורזים, Ramat Korazim, also spelled Corazim), is a volcanic plateau, located in northern Israel.^[1]

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Chorazin
Geography of Northern District (Israel)
Plateaus of Asia
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Volcanic plateaus

Almagor

Almagor (אַלְמָגוֹר) is a moshav in northern Israel.

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Ami'ad

Ami'ad (עַמִּיעַד) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.

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Amnun

Amnun (אַמְנוּן) is a workers' moshav in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel.

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Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Ayelet HaShahar

Ayelet HaShahar (אַיֶּלֶת הַשַּׁחַר) is a kibbutz in northern Israel acquired in 1892 and settled in the second Aliyah, located on the Korazim Plateau, by the Rosh Pina – Metulla road, it is approximately south of Kiryat Shmona and falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Bedouin

The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq).

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Canaan

Canaan (Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 –; כְּנַעַן –, in pausa כְּנָעַן –; Χανααν –;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes.

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Chalcolithic

The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.

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Chorazin

Chorazin (Χοραζίν; also Chorazain) or Korazim (כורזים; also Chorizim) was an ancient village in the Roman and Byzantine periods, best known from the Christian Gospels. Korazim Plateau and Chorazin are Upper Galilee.

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Claude Reignier Conder

Claude Reignier Conder (29 December 1848 – 16 February 1910) was an English soldier, explorer and antiquarian.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Daughters of Jacob Bridge

The Daughters of Jacob Bridge (Gesher Bnot Ya'akov, Jisr Benat Ya'kub) is a bridge that spans the last natural ford of the Jordan River between the Korazim Plateau in northern Israel and the Golan Heights.

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Dead Sea

The Dead Sea (al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or label; Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west.

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Dead Sea Transform

The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the Maras Triple Junction (a junction with the East Anatolian Fault in southeastern Turkey) to the northern end of the Red Sea Rift (just offshore of the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula).

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Dolmen

A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Elifelet

Elifelet (אֱלִיפֶלֶט) is a moshav in northern Israel.

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Emek HaYarden Regional Council

Emek HaYarden Regional Council (מועצה אזורית עמק הירדן, Mo'atza Azorit 'Emeq HaYarden, lit. Jordan Valley Regional Council) is a regional council comprising much of the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, the southern parts of its eastern shore, and the northern part of the Jordan Valley all the way to Beit She'an in the south.

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Francis Turville-Petre

Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre (4 March 1901 – 16 August 1942) was a British archaeologist, famous for the discovery of the Homo heidelbergensis fossil Galilee Man in 1926, and for his work at Mount Carmel, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel.

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Gabriel Barkay

Gabriel Barkay (born 1944) (Hebrew: גבריאל ברקאי; sometimes transcribed from the Hebrew Gavriel Barkai) is an Israeli archaeologist.

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Gadot, Israel

Gadot (גָּדוֹת, lit. Banks) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.

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Galilee

Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Korazim Plateau and Galilee are Geography of Northern District (Israel) and regions of Israel.

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Galilee earthquake of 1837

The Galilee earthquake of 1837, often called the Safed earthquake, shook the Galilee on January 1 and is one of a number of moderate to large events that have occurred along the Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system that marks the boundary of two tectonic plates; the African Plate on the west and the Arabian Plate on the east.

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Geomorphology

Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek:,, 'earth';,, 'form'; and,, 'study') is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near Earth's surface.

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Golan Heights

The Golan Heights (Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or; רמת הגולן), or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau, at the southwest corner of Syria.

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Hatzor HaGlilit

Hatzor HaGlilit (חָצוֹר הַגְּלִילִית lit. "Hatzor of Galilee") is a town in the Korazim Plateau in northern Israel near Rosh Pinna and Safed.

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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.

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Hula Valley

The Hula Valley (ʿEmeq haḤūlā; Buḥayrat al-Ḥūla) is an agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water that used to be Lake Hula before it was drained. Korazim Plateau and Hula Valley are regions of Israel and Upper Galilee.

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Islam in Israel

, Muslims are the largest religious minority in Israel, accounting for 18.1% of the country's total population.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA, רשות העתיקות rashut ha-'atiqot; داﺌرة الآثار, before 1990, the Israel Department of Antiquities) is an independent Israeli governmental authority responsible for enforcing the 1978 Law of Antiquities.

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Ituran

Ituran Location and Control Ltd. is an Israeli company that provides stolen vehicle recovery and tracking services, and markets GPS wireless communications products.

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Jordan River

The Jordan River or River Jordan (نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (نهر الشريعة.), is a river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the freshwater Sea of Galilee and on to the salt water Dead Sea.

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Jubb Yussef (Joseph's Well)

Jubb Yussef (جُبّ يُوسُف, גוב יוסף), also known as "Joseph's Well" in English, is an archaeological site in Ramat Korazim in Galilee, Israel.

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Karkom

Karkom (כַּרְכֹּם, כרכום) is a community settlement in northern Israel.

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Kfar HaNassi

Kfar HaNassi (כְּפַר הַנָּשִׂיא, lit. President's Village) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.

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Kinneret (archaeological site)

Kinneret is the name of an important Bronze and Iron Age city situated on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, mentioned in the 14th century BC Aqhat Epic of Ugarit, and in the Old Testament and New Testament.

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Korazim

Korazim (כּוֹרָזִים) is a community settlement in northern Israel. Korazim Plateau and Korazim are Upper Galilee.

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Late Bronze Age collapse

The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC associated with environmental change, mass migration, and the destruction of cities.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Mahanayim

Mahanayim (מחניים, מַחֲנַיִם) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.

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Marine transgression

A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, which results in flooding.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council

Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council (מועצה אזורית מבואות החרמון, Mo'atza Azorit Mevo'ot HaHermon) is a Regional Council in the Northern District of Israel.

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Ministry of Environmental Protection (Israel)

The Ministry of Environmental Protection (המשרד להגנת הסביבה, HaMisrad LeHaganat HaSviva; وزارة حماية البيئة) is a government ministry in Israel.

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Mishmar HaYarden

Mishmar HaYarden (מִשְׁמַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, lit. Guard of the Jordan) is a moshav in northern Israel.

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Mount of Beatitudes

The Mount of Beatitudes (הר האושר, Har HaOsher) is a hill in northern Israel, in the Korazim Plateau.

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Naftali Mountains

Naftali Mountains (הרי נפתלי) is a mountain range between Lebanon and Upper Galilee, Israel. Korazim Plateau and Naftali Mountains are Upper Galilee.

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PEF Survey of Palestine

The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the completed Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the soon abandoned Survey of Eastern Palestine.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Pressure ridge

A pressure ridge is a topographic ridge produced by compression.

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Pull-apart basin

In geology, a basin is a region where subsidence generates accommodation space for the deposition of sediments.

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Rosh Pinna

Rosh Pina or Rosh Pinna (רֹאשׁ פִּנָּה, lit. Cornerstone) is a local council in the Korazim Plateau in the Upper Galilee on the eastern slopes of Mount Kna'an in the Northern District of Israel.

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Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee (יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel.

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Sinai and Palestine campaign

The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918.

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Six-Day War

The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Tel Hazor

Tel Hazor (תל חצור), also Chatsôr (חָצוֹר), translated in LXX as Hasōr (Άσώρ), named in Arabic Tell Waqqas / Tell Qedah el-Gul (Tell el-Qedah), is an archaeological tell at the site of ancient Hazor, located in Israel, Upper Galilee, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the northern Korazim Plateau. Korazim Plateau and tel Hazor are Upper Galilee.

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Tuba-Zangariyye

Tuba-Zangariyye or Tuba az-Zanghariyya (طوبه زنغرية, טוּבָּא-זַנְגָרִיָה) is a Bedouin town in the Northern District of Israel.

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Upper Galilee Regional Council

The Upper Galilee Regional Council (מוֹעָצָה אֲזוֹרִית הַגָּלִיל הַעֶלְיוֹן, translit. Mo'atza Azorit HaGalil HaElyon) is a regional council in Israel's Upper Galilee region, bordered by the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council and the Golan Regional Council, as well as a border with southern Lebanon. Korazim Plateau and Upper Galilee Regional Council are Upper Galilee.

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Victor Guérin

Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist.

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Volcanic cone

Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.

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Volcanic plateau

A volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic activity. Korazim Plateau and volcanic plateau are volcanic plateaus.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Yarda, Safad

Yarda was a Palestinian hamlet in the Safad Subdistrict.

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Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from 6 to 25 October 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.

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1948 Arab–Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korazim_Plateau

Also known as Ramat Korazim.

, PEF Survey of Palestine, Pliocene, Pressure ridge, Pull-apart basin, Rosh Pinna, Sea of Galilee, Sinai and Palestine campaign, Six-Day War, Syria, Tel Hazor, Tuba-Zangariyye, Upper Galilee Regional Council, Victor Guérin, Volcanic cone, Volcanic plateau, World War I, Yarda, Safad, Yom Kippur War, 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Korazim Plateau, the Glossary

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See also

Chorazin

Geography of Northern District (Israel)

Plateaus of Asia

Regions of Israel

Upper Galilee

Volcanic plateaus

References