Jericho
Jericho | |
|---|---|
| Ither transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | أريحا |
| • Ebreu | יְרִיחוֹ |
 The ceety o Jericho frae Tell es-Sultan | |
  Jericho Location o Jericho within thePalestinian territories | |
| Coordinates:31°52′16″N35°26′39″E/ 31.87111°N 35.44417°ECoordinates:31°52′16″N35°26′39″E/ 31.87111°N 35.44417°E | |
| Palestine grid | 193/140 |
| Govrenorate | Jericho |
| Foondit | 9600 BC |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Ceety(from 1994) |
| • Heid o Municipality | Hassan Saleh[1] |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 58.701 km2(22.665 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 20,300 |
| Name meanin | "Fragrant" |
Jericho(Arabic:أريحاĀrīḥā[ʔæˈriːħɑː](
listen));Hebrew:יְרִיחוֹYəriḥo[jeʁiˈħo](listen)is a ceety locatit near theJordan Riverin theWast Banko thePalestine.It is the caipital o theJericho Governorate,an haes a population o ower 20,000.[2]Situatit well below sea level on an east-wast route 16 kilometres (10 mi) north o theDead Sea,Jericho is the lawest permanently inhabitit site on earth. It is an aa believed tae be ane o the auldest continuously inhabitit ceeties o the warld.[3][4][5]
Described in theEbreu Bibleas the "Ceety o Palm Trees", copious springs in an aroond Jericho hae made it an attractive site for human habitation for thoosans o years.[6]It is kent inJudeo-Christiantradition as the place o theIsraelites' return frae bondage inEgyp,led biJoshua,the successor taeMoses.Archaeologistshae uneartht the remains o ower 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first o whilk dates back tae 11,000 years ago (9000 BC).[7]
Etymology
[eedit|eedit soorce]Jericho's Arabic name,Ārīḥā,means "fragrant" an derives frae theCanaanitewirdReah,o the same meanin.[8][9][10][11]Jericho's name inEbreu,Yəriḥo,is an aa thocht tae derive frae that ruit, though an alternative theory haulds that it is derived frae the wird meanin "muin" (Yareah) in Canaanite, as the ceety wis an early centre o worship forlunardeities.[12]
Twin touns - Sister ceeties
[eedit|eedit soorce]Jericho istwinnedwi:
CampinasinBrazil
Pisain Italy(syne 2000)[13]
KragujevacinSerbie
Lyonin Fraunce
Calipatria,Californiein the USA
IaşiinRomanie
LærdalinNorawa(syne 1998)
References
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑Elected City Council Municipality of JerichoArchived5 Mey 2008 at theWayback Machine.Retrieved 8 March 2008.
- ↑Projected Mid -Year Population for Jericho Governorate by Locality 2004–2006Archived2012-02-07 at theWayback MachinePalestinian Central Bureau of Statistics(PCBS).
- ↑Gates, Charles (2003)."Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Aegean Cities", Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome.Routledge. p.18.ISBN0415018951.
Jericho, in the Jordan River Valley in Palestine, inhabited from ca. 9000 BC to the present day, offers important evidence for the earliest permanent settlements in the Near East.
- ↑Murphy-O'Connor, 1998, p. 288.
- ↑Freedman et al., 2000, p. 689–671.
- ↑Bromiley, 1995, p. 715.
- ↑"Jericho",Encyclopedia Britannica
- ↑Schreiber, 2003, p. 141.
- ↑Ring et al., 1994,p. 367–370.
- ↑Bromiley, 1995, p. 1136.
- ↑"Bibliotheca Sacra 132"(PDF).1975. pp. 327–42. Archived fraethe original(PDF)on 18 November 2018.Retrieved8 Januar2011.
- ↑Strong's Bible Dictionary
- ↑"Pisa - Official Sister Cities".©Comune di Pisa, Via degli Uffizi, 1 - 56100 Pisa centralino: +39 050 910111. Archived fraethe originalon 16 Apryle 2012.Retrieved16 December2008.
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