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- 1. an ancient city in northwestern Palestine, southeast of Haifa in present-day Israel. Its commanding location made the city the scene of many early battles, and the word Armageddon (“hill of Megiddo”) is derived from its name. It was the scene in 1918 of the defeat of Turkish forces by the British under General Allenby.
Sep 20, 2023 · Megiddo is an ancient city in Israel and the site of a number of military conflicts. Today it is the site of a kibbutz and some rich archeological digs (Tel Megiddo). Megiddo is first mentioned in Joshua 12:21 as one of the cities of the “Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites” whose kings were defeated by Joshua.
Megiddo, important town of ancient Palestine, overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon (Valley of Jezreel). It lies about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Haifa in northern Israel. Megiddo’s strategic location at the crossing of two military and trade routes gave the city an importance far beyond its size.
The name refers to an imposing 70-foot mound overlooking Israel’s fertile Jezreel Valley, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem and 25 miles from the Mediterranean coast. Archaeologists at Megiddo have revealed a rich ancient city occupied almost continuously from about 6000 B.C. to 500 A.D.
Tel Megiddo (from Hebrew: תל מגידו), called in Arabic Tell el-Mütesellim "tell of the Governor", is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo (Greek: Μεγιδδώ), the remains of which form a tell or archaeological mound, situated in northern Israel at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of ...
Megiddo. place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites ( Joshua 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh ( Judges 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites till the time of Solomon ( 1 Kings 4:12; 9:15).
May 21, 2008 · Megiddo — in later Scriptures also known as Megiddon (מגדון, Zechariah 12:11) — was an ancient Canaanite city southeast of Mount Carmel at the western approach of the Jezreel Valley. It was conquered by Joshua (Joshua 12:21) and assigned to Manasseh (17:11).
Tel (mound) Megiddo (Heb. ?????), known as Tel-el-Mutesellim (Hill of the Ruler) has been identified as one of the most important cities of biblical times.
Megiddo. MEGIDDO mĕ gĭd’ ō ( מְגִדֹּ֖ו, also מְגִדֹּֽון, Zechariah 12:11; LXX usually Μαγεδ ( δ, G1225) ώ ( ν, G3708 ), esp. Luc.). A major Bronze Age and Israelite city in the Jezreel Plain. It commands the entrance to the Wâdī ’Ârah, which served in antiquity as the main pass on the Via Maris between the ...
Megiddo was the site of epic battles that decided the fate of western Asia. When the Canaanite city-states revolted against 15th century B.C.E Pharaonic attempts at hegemony, it was at Megiddo that they assembled to do battle.
Megiddo, also known as Armageddon (mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible), is a Unesco World Heritage site situated in Northern Israel’s Jezreel Valley and is extensively regarded as the Holy Land’s most significant Biblical period site.
