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Jericho

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jericho [Heb.,=fragrant, or city of the moon god], Arab. Ariha, town (2003 est. pop. 19,000), West Bank, in the Jordan valley N of the Dead Sea; nearby is the site of the ancient city of Jericho. Jericho is an oasis watered by a number of springs, and the town is surrounded by orchards and intensive market gardening; a large part of the population is engaged in agriculture. Jericho was the first Arab town in the West Bank to become (1994) autonomous under the agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The town saw increasing development after the agreement; a... Read more
Jericho
Jericho On the west bank of the Jordan , a city 10 km. (6 miles...at the beginning of the Israelite invasion of Canaan . Jericho has been thoroughly explored by archaeologists, and John...1400 BCE. However, more recent excavation suggests that Jericho can tell us nothing about Israelite settlement as it ... Read more
Jericho
Jericho An ancient city, now in the Palestinian-administered West...are of the pre-pottery NEOLITHIC period c. 7000 BC, when Jericho was already a walled settlement of some 4 ha (10 acres...Joshua recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible. Modern Jericho was granted Palestinian self-rule in 1994, as part ... Read more

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