- Golan Heights - Wikipedia
The Golan Heights, [c] or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad in the east
- Golan Heights | History, Map, Buffer Zone, Population, 1974 . . .
Golan Heights, hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in December 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan it held
- History Overview of the Golan Heights - Jewish Virtual Library
The Golan – rising from 400 to 1700 feet in the western section bordering on pre-1967 Israel – overlooks the Huleh Valley, Israel’s richest agricultural area
- What is the Golan Heights and who are the Druze? - CNN
What is the Golan Heights? The Golan Heights is a strategic plateau that Israeli seized from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967, before formally annexing it in 1981
- What is the Golan Heights and what does it mean to Israel and . . .
Syria tried to regain the Golan in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, but was thwarted Israel and Syria signed an armistice in 1974 and the Golan has been relatively quiet since
- The History of the Golan Heights: The Road to Occupation
The modern name “Golan” derives from one of the biblical cities of refuge in Bashan For centuries, the Golan Heights was sparsely populated, home to pastoral communities and small towns under the successive rules of the Ottoman Empire and later the French Mandate of Syria
- What Is the Significance of the Golan Heights?
The Golan Heights were part of Syria until 1967, when Israel captured most of the plateau in the Six-Day War, occupying it and annexing it unilaterally in 1981
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