Information about Judean Mountains

The central Judean Mountains

The populated area around Jerusalem. View from Jerusalem's entrance

The Judean Mountains (Hebrew: הרי יהודה Transliteration: Harei-Yehuda; commonly referred to in English as Hills of Judea) is the mountain range on which Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel, is located. Running generally north-south, the mountains extend both to the west and east of Jerusalem. Other important cities in the mountain range are Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah. The range forms a natural division between the Shephelah coastal plains to the west and the Jordan Rift Valley to the east.

In prehistoric times, animals no longer found in the region were found here, including elephants, rhinoceri, giraffes and water buffalo.[1] The range has karst topography including a stalactite cave in Nahal Sorek National Park between Jerusalem and Bet Shemesh and the area surrounding Ofra, where fossils of prehistoric flora and fauna were found.

The Judean Mountains have one train line which climbs up from Bet Shemesh along the Brook of Sorek into Jerusalem's southern train station. Currently, a plan for development of the Judean Mountains region is in progress.

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Official status
Official language of: Israel
Regulated by: Academy of the Hebrew Language

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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (help info ) , YerushalÃ¡yim; Arabic:
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Anthem
Hatikvah
The Hope

Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem

Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
Demonym Israeli
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Hebron.
חֶבְרוֹן
الخلي?
Downtown Hebron

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Bethlehem
بيت لحم
Roman Catholic section of Church of Nativity

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Ramallah
رام الله
Ramallah skyline

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Shephelah (Hebrew: הַשְפֵלָה) - which means "lowland" - is a designation usually applied to the region of low hills between Israel's central mountain range and the coastal plains of Philistia.
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Jordan Valley may refer to:

Jordan Valley in the Middle East.
Jordan Valley in New Kowloon, Hong Kong, near Ngau Tau Kok.
Jordan Valley, Oregon in the United States.

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Great Rift Valley is a vast geographical and geological feature, approximately 6,000 kilometres (0 mi) in length, which runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in East Africa.
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Prehistory (Latin, prÃ¦ = before Greek, ιστορία = history) is a term often used to describe the period before written history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term PrÃ©-historique
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Elephantidae
Gray, 1821

Subfamilia

See Classification

The elephants (Elephantidae) are a family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia.
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Rhinocerotidae
Gray, 1821

Extant Genera

Ceratotherium
Dicerorhinus
Diceros
Rhinoceros
Extinct genera, see text
The rhinoceros (IPA:
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B. bubalis

Binomial name
Bubalus bubalis
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The abundant Domestic Asian Water buffalo
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Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. These landscapes display distinctive surface features and underground drainages, and in some examples there may be little or no
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stalactite (Greek stalaktites, (Σταλακτίτης), from the word for "drip" and meaning "that which drips") is a type of speleothem (secondary mineral) that hangs from the ceiling or wall of limestone caves.
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cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term 'cave' should only apply to cavities that have some part which does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (help info ) , YerushalÃ¡yim; Arabic:
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Beit Shemesh (בית שמש; officially also spelled Bet Shemesh) is a city in the Jerusalem District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2006 the city had a total population of 68,400.
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Ofra (Hebrew: עפרה) is an Israeli settlement located north-east of Jerusalem in the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. It is situated on the main road between Jerusalem and Nablus (route 60), 25 km from Jerusalem.It has 3,000 inhabitants.
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Israel Railways (Hebrew: רכבת ישראל RakÃ©vet YisraÃ©l) is Israel's government-owned national railway company and is responsible for all inter-city and suburban railway passenger and freight traffic in the country.
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The Brook of Sorek, also called the Valley of Sorek, (in Hebrew "נחל שורק" naḥal soreq), mentioned in the Book of Judges 16:4 of the Hebrew Bible, is probably a point on the border between the ancient Philistines and
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The Jerusalem Malha Railway Station is the main Israel Railways station in Jerusalem, Israel. The station is located in the southern Jerusalem Manahat neighborhood, also known as Malha, near the Jerusalem Shopping Mall and Teddy Stadium, the home field of the Beitar
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