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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Golan Heights, Golannoun

    a fortified hilly area between southern Lebanon and southern Syria

    "artillery on the Golan Heights can dominate a large area of Israel"

Wiktionary

  1. Golan Heightsnoun

    A plateau straddling the border of Syria and Israel

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  1. golan heights

    The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau region covering about 1,200 square kilometers located in the Levant area of Southwest Asia. It is currently a contested region, occupied and administered by Israel, which captured it from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967. However, the international community, including the United Nations, mostly does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the region and considers it part of Syria. Known for its beauty, strategic importance, and fertile land, it is also a contentious political issue between Israel and Syria.

Wikidata

  1. Golan Heights

    The Golan Heights, also called the Golan or the Syrian Golan, is a region in the Levant. The exact region defined as the Golan Heights is different in different disciplines: ⁕As a geological and biogeographical region, the Golan Heights is a basaltic plateau bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, Mount Hermon in the north, and the Raqqad Wadi in the east. The western two thirds of this region are currently occupied by Israel, whereas the eastern third is controlled by Syria. ⁕As a geopolitical region, the Golan Heights is the area captured and occupied by Israel from Syria in the Six-Day War, which subsequently effectively annexed the territory in 1981. This region includes the western two thirds of the geological Golan Heights, as well as the Israeli occupied part of Mount Hermon. The earliest evidence of human habitation dates to the Upper Paleolithic period. According to the Bible, an Amorite Kingdom in Bashan was conquered by Israelites during the reign of King Og. Throughout the Old Testament period, the Golan was "the focus of a power struggle between the Kings of Israel and the Aramaeans who were based near modern-day Damascus." The Itureans, an Arab or Aramaic people, settled there in the 2nd century BCE and remained until the end of the Byzantine period. Organized Jewish settlement in the region came to an end in 636 CE when it was conquered by Arabs under Umar ibn al-Khattāb. In the 16th century, the Golan was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and was part of the Vilayet of Damascus until it was transferred to French control in 1918. When the mandate terminated in 1946, it became part of the newly independent Syrian Arab Republic.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of golan heights in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of golan heights in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of golan heights in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    Our prayers are with our friends in Golan Heights as they carry out an incredible way of life in the face of great terror.

  2. Fox News:

    I was disappointed with Bibi because no one did more for Israel than me, and he was the first to call President Biden and congratulate President Biden, no president has done more for Israel — Golan Heights, the embassy for Jerusalem, and bigger than both is ending the Iran nuclear disaster — that’s bigger than both — and I did other things too.

  3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

    Jared Kushner brought me the updated map that includes Golan Heights within Israeli sovereignty -- here is the signature of President Trump and he writes here' Nice,'.

  4. Donald Trump:

    Today I am taking historic action to promote Israel's ability to defend Golan Heights and really to have a very powerful, very strong national security, which they're entitled to have.

  5. Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon:

    Given what was prevented on the Golan Heights, what was exposed is an Iranian effort, in partnership with Hezbollah, to open a front with us on the Golan Heights, they started with rockets and a few bombs. We understood that they apparently want to upgrade it to high-quality and far more significant terrorist attacks ....

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