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Battir
Battir is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, 6.4 km west of Bethlehem, and southwest of Jerusalem. It was inhabited during the Byzantine and Islamic periods. Battir is a major Palestinian cultural landscape, the adaptation of a deep valley system for agricultural purposes as a result of a good supply of water. The complex irrigation system of this water supply has led to the creation of dry walls terraces which may have been exploited since antiquity. Battir was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014.
The site is a UNESCO World Heritage site with the official name, Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir.by Bukvoed, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 734 m
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World Heritage Site
Date of Inscription
2014
2nd Century AD
Roman
Byzantine + Islamic
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