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Surroundings:

Malha - Bronze Age NecropolisChurch of St. John built over early Byzantine churchPlan of the ancient remainsNeolithic settlement, seventh millenium BC

Location:

  • PS, Battīr
  • geo:31.73,35.135555
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=44153

Annotations

The Betar fortress was the last standing Jewish fortress in the Bar Kochba revolt 132-135 AD.

See:

  1. David Ussishkin, Archaeological Soundings at Betar, Bar-Kochba's Last Stronghold, Tel Aviv 20, 1993, pp. 66-97.
  2. Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Archaeological Researches in Palestine during the Years 1873-74, London 1899, pp. 263-270.

Nearby

Malha [Jerusalem] (4 km)

Canaanite Burial.

Ein Karem, Church of the Visitation (4 km)

Ein Kerem.

Ein Kerem, Mary's Spring (4 km)

Virgin Mary`s Spring.


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