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The Jordan River or River Jordan (Arabic: نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (Arabic: نهر الشريعة), is a 251-kilometre-long (156 mi) endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead Sea.
Railway bridge over the Yarmouk River, destroyed during the Night of the Bridges in June 1946. Early Bronze Age I is represented in the Golan only in the area of the river. [6] Abila (Tel Abil) is attested in the 14th-century BC Amarna Letters. This is possibly the case also for Geshur, assumed to have lain north of the river. [5]
The Jordan River is the major river flowing into the Dead Sea from the north. It also is the northern part of the western border of Jordan. Its affluents are listed from north to south. Jordan River. Yarmouk River - largest tributary of the Jordan and forms part of the northern border of Jordan with Syria and Israel. Flows into the Jordan just ...
Chao Phraya: Thai เจ้าพระยา "river of kings" Dongjiang: Chinese "east river" (東江) Ganges: Sanskrit Ganga; Indus River: Sanskrit Sindhu generically means "river, stream, ocean" [3] Jordan River: Hebrew Yarden, Arabic Urdunn from the root .י.ר.ד / وَرَدَ meaning "to go down". Mekong: Khmer: មេគង្គ ...
Wadi Shueib (Arabic: وادي شُعَيب), Arabic for the Valley of Jethro and properly Wadi Shuʿeib but with many variant romanisations, is a wadi in Jordan. [1] The alluvial fan of the wadi where it enters the southern part of the eastern Jordan Valley is known as Wadi Nimrin, which leads into the Jordan River.
The Hasbani (Arabic: الحاصباني / ALA-LC: al-Ḥāṣbānī; Hebrew: חצבני Ḥatzbaní) or Snir Stream (Hebrew: נחל שניר / Nahal Sənir), is the major tributary of the Jordan River that flows in Lebanon and Israel. Locals in the mid-19th century knew the Hasbani as the Upper Jordan River. [1]
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The Sinai Peninsula is in center and the Dead Sea and Jordan River valley above. The Jordan Rift Valley was formed many millions of years ago in the Miocene epoch (23.8 – 5.3 Myr ago) when the Arabian plate moved northward and then eastward away from Africa. One million years later, the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan Rift ...