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ID: 7001382
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001382
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Eilat (inhabited place)  Eilat (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 29 33 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 29.5500  decimal degrees
Long: 034 57 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 34.9500  decimal degrees

Note: Place of refuge for Jews fleeing Muslim conquest; taken by Crusaders 1116; fell to Saladin 1167; site of last operation in 1948-1949 war; cut off by Egyptian blockade of Gulf of Aqaba 1956, 1967; some scholars believe this is site of ancient Ezion-Geber.

Names:
Eilat (preferred,C,V,English-P)
Elat (C,V)
Elath (C,O)
אילת (C,U,Hebrew )
Eloth (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Yisra'el (nation)  ........  Yisra'el (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of HaDarom (national district)  ............  HaDarom (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Eilat (inhabited place)  ................  Eilat (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was a very ancient settlement; modern city was founded in 1949
city (C)
seaport (C)
tourist center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
אילת..........  [IMJ]
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Eilat..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 342
Elat..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IV, 417
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 61
Elath..........  [VP]
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 364
Eloth..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 270
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 270
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IV, 417
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 61
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 342
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 364
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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