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ID: 7017529
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017529
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tiberias (inhabited place)  Tiberias (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 035 32 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.5333  decimal degrees

Note: One of four holy cities of Judaism; grew in importance when Galilee became chief Jewish center after destruction of the Temple & despoliation of Judaea by Romans; taken by Arabs 636; site of important Hebrew literary developments; declined in 12th cen.

Names:
Teverya (preferred,C,V)
Tiberias (C,O,English-P)
Hammath Tiberias (C,O)
El-Hammeh Tiberias (C,O)
טבריה (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Israel (nation)  ........  Israel (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Northern (national district)  ............  Northern (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Tiberias (inhabited place)  ................  Tiberias (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Herod Antipas, 4 BC, & named for reigning Roman Emperor Tiberius
city (C)
resort (C)
tourist center (C)
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
טבריה..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
El-Hammeh Tiberias..........  [BHA]
...................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Hammath Tiberias..........  [BHA]
.............................  Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983) 177
.............................  Murphy-O'Connor, Holy Land (1986)
.............................  Nagel's
.............................  Saller, Synagogues of Holy Land (1972)
.............................  Vilnay, Guide to Israel (1971)
Teverya..........  [BHA]
.................  Baedekers: Israel (1983) 236
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Tiberias..........  [BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 753-754
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 198
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Baedekers: Israel (1983) 236
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983) 177
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 753-754
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Murphy-O'Connor, Holy Land (1986)
..................  Nagel's
..................  Saller, Synagogues of Holy Land (1972)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 198
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Vilnay, Guide to Israel (1971)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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