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1994 CIA map of Golan Heights and vicinity Sea of Galilee and southern Golan Heights, viewed from Umm Qais and the ruins of Gadara in Jordan Geology The plateau that Israel controls is part of a larger area of volcanic basalt fields stretching north and east that were created in the series of volcanic eruptions that began recently in geological ...
Golan location map 2.PNG Module:Location map/data/Syria Golan is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of the Golan Heights . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Historical borders and boundaries of the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights are a rocky plateau in the Levant region of Western Asia that was captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community, with the exception of Israel and the United States, considers the Golan Heights to be Syrian territory held by Israel ...
The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau around 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Damascus, although ...
Ramot (Hebrew: רָמוֹת, lit. "Heights") is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav, near the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee in the western Golan Heights.Named "Ramot" because it is located on two hills, it falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council.
Before the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War, the Golan Heights comprised 312 inhabited areas, including 2 towns, 163 villages, and 108 farms. [1] In 1966, the Syrian population of the Golan Heights was estimated at 147,613. [2] Israel seized about 70% of the Golan Heights in the closing stages of the Six-Day War. [3]
Netanyahu said he wanted to double the population of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized during the 1967 Six-Day War and is considered illegally occupied under international law.
The UNDOF zone is about 80 km long, and between 0.5 and 10 km wide, forming an area of 235 km 2.The zone straddles the Purple Line, separating the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights and the rest of Syria, where the west line is known as "Alpha", and the east line as "Bravo".